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ASU researchers find water in samples from asteroid Itokawa
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
The team's findings suggest that impacts early in Earth's history by similar asteroids could have delivered as much as half of our planet's ocean water. "We fou...
Hera's CubeSat to perform first radar probe of an asteroid
May 02, 2019 (ESA)
ESA's proposed Hera mission for planetary defence will explore the twin Didymos asteroids, but it will not go there alone: it will also serve as mothership for ...
Asteroid impact exercise offers practice for NASA, ESA scientists, engineers
May 02, 2019 (UPI)
The week-long exercise started on Monday, and while many of the hard decisions have already been made, the scenario will continue to play out on Thursday and Fr...
What if an asteroid was about to hit Earth? Scientists ponder question
Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)
Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027. What should we do? It's this potentially catastrophic sce...
Scientists Planning Now for Asteroid Flyby a Decade Away
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
The international asteroid research community couldn't be more excited. This week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland, scientists...
Asteroid HS2 swings past Earth
Apr 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
An asteroid codenamed by NASA as 2019 HS2, barrelling through space at almost 27,000mp/h (43,450km/h) swung by at an overwhelmingly close distance from our plan...
Gaia survey reveals three new asteroids
Apr 29, 2019 (UPI)
The Gaia mission is an effort by astronomers to compile the largest and most precise 3D space catalog in history. Most of the space telescope's targets are fara...
NASA chief calls for global effort to study asteroid threat
Apr 29, 2019 (UPI)
Bridenstine spoke to the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning in an event that was streamed live online. The conference was ...
The day the asteroid might hit
Apr 29, 2019 (ESA)
Every two years, asteroid experts from across the globe come together to simulate a fictional but plausible imminent asteroid impact on Earth. During the week-l...
Hayabusa2's Small Carry-on Impactor Made a Crater on Ryugu
Apr 29, 2019 (Sputnik)
The Hayabusa-2 probe fired an explosive device near the surface of the asteroid. As a result of the explosion on the asteroid, an extensive round-shaped artific...
NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise
Apr 26, 2019 (JPL)
For more than 20 years, NASA and its international partners have been scanning the skies for NEOs, which are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun and come wi...
Hermes to Bring Asteroid Research to the ISS
Apr 26, 2019 (SPX)
The device, called the Hermes Facility, is an experiment station that can communicate with scientists on the ground and give them the ability to control their s...
Japan creates first artificial crater on asteroid
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
The announcement comes after the Hayabusa2 probe fired an explosive device at the Ryugu asteroid early this month to blast a crater in the surface and scoop up ...
NASA, FEMA, international partners to hold asteroid impact exercise
Apr 24, 2019 (UPI)
As part of next week's "tabletop exercise," participants will respond to a fictional near-Earth object impact scenario. "These exercises have really helped us i...
Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back
Apr 23, 2019 (ESA)
On 5 April, Hayabusa2 released an experiment called the 'Small Carry-on Impactor' or SCI for short, carrying a plastic explosive charge that shot a 2.5-kg coppe...
One Comet, 70,000 Images on the Internet
Apr 18, 2019 (SPX)
In a joint project with the Department of Information and Communication at Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System R...
China to launch asteroid probe, calls for partners
Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)
The 10-year mission will involve a probe sent to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples, said Liu Jizhong, head of China's Exploration and Space Engineering C...
Scientists find the ghost of a new mineral
Apr 17, 2019 (UPI)
The mineral is a new type of monazite, which only forms under the high-pressure conditions created by meteorite impacts. Scientists found the new mineral after ...
NEOWISE Celebrates Five Years of Asteroid Data
Apr 16, 2019 (JPL)
"NEOWISE recently surpassed 95 billion recorded measurements of asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies - a remarkable accomplishment for a recycled spacecraft," ...
Tiny fragment of a comet found inside a meteorite
Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)
The finding could offer clues to the formation, structure, and evolution of the solar system. "The meteorite is named LaPaz Icefield 02342," says research scien...
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