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10 Things You Should Know About Planetary Defense

Apr 12, 2019 (SPX)

2. A Current Hazard We didn't always know that asteroid impacts were a modern-day possibility. In fact, this realization didn't come until scientists started pr...

Iron volcanoes may have erupted on metal asteroids

Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)

This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investigation was prompted in part by NASA's plans to launch a probe to Ps...

Self-driving spacecraft set for planetary defence expedition

Apr 08, 2019 (ESA)

"If you think self-driving cars are the future on Earth, then Hera is the pioneer of autonomy in deep space," explains Paolo Martino, lead systems engineer of E...

Stunning discovery offers glimpse of minutes following 'dinosaur-killer' Chicxulub impact

Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)

At a site called Tanis in North Dakota's Hell Creek Formation, a team of paleontologists whose headquarters are at the University of Kansas unearthed a motherlo...

Hubble watches spun-up asteroid coming apart

Apr 08, 2019 (SPX)

Discovered in 1988, the 2.5-mile-wide (4-kilometer-wide) asteroid has been observed repeatedly, but the debris tails are the first evidence of disintegration. G...

OSIRIS-REx Captures Laser 3D View of Bennu

Apr 05, 2019 (SPX)

From Feb. 12 through 17, OLA made more than 11 million measurements of the distance between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu's surface as the spacecraft flew less than 1.2 ...

Japan probe sends 'impactor' to blast asteroid

Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)

The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe that aims to reveal more about the origins of life on Earth. ...

Japan probe blasts asteroid, seeking clues to life's origins

Apr 05, 2019 (AFP)

The explosive mission is the riskiest yet attempted by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe that aims to reveal more about the origins of life on Earth. ...

Making a dent: Japan probe prepares to blast asteroid

Apr 04, 2019 (AFP)

The mission will be the latest in a series of explorations carried out by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 probe and could reveal more about the origin of ...

Is Space Mining a Viable Future?

Apr 01, 2019 (SPX)

First to be considered are the environmental implications of space mining. The low gravity and harsh temperature changes off earth means that robotics and equip...

University of Hawaii team records self-destructing asteroid

Mar 30, 2019 (SPX)

New observations are turning science fiction into science fact, showing that asteroids are anything but dull. Asteroid Gault, discovered in 1998, has begun to s...

Fossil 'mother lode' records Earth-shaking asteroid's impact: study

Mar 30, 2019 (AFP)

In a paper to be published Monday, a team of paleontologists headquartered at the University of Kansas say they found a "mother lode of exquisitely preserved an...

Bennu in Stereo

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

The stereo pair was created by stereo image processing scientists Dr. Brian May, who is also the lead guitarist for the rock band Queen, and Claudia Manzoni. In...

NASA instruments image fireball over Bering Sea

Mar 24, 2019 (JPL)

Two NASA instruments aboard the Terra satellite captured images of the remnants of the large meteor. The image sequence shows views from five of nine cameras on...

NASA Mission Reveals Asteroid Has Big Surprises

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

Bennu is the target of NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission, which began orbiting t...

Surprisingly old surface discovered on near-Earth asteroid Bennu

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

"We expected small, kilometer-sized NEAs to have young, frequently refreshed surfaces," said SwRI's Dr. Kevin Walsh, a mission co-investigator and lead author o...

Hayabusa2 probes asteroid for secrets

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

"The ground shook. My heart pounded. The clock counted. 3... 2... 1... Liftoff!" regaled Professor Seiji Sugita of the University of Tokyo's Department of Earth...

Team identifies water-bearing minerals on asteroid Bennu

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

"Scientists are interested in the composition of Bennu because similar objects may have seeded the Earth with water and organic materials," said SwRI's Dr. Vict...

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft studies asteroid Bennu up close

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

In a series of eight scientific papers published March 19 across several Nature Publishing Group journals, the members of the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-R...

OSIRIS-REx images allow closer look at boulder breakup on Bennu

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Breakdown can occur due to impacts on the surface, movement of boulders in landslides, and thermal fracturing. Thermal fracturing is a process where cracks can ...