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Possible second impact crater found under Greenland ice
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
This follows the finding, announced in November 2018, of a 19-mile-wide crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier - the first meteorite impact crater ever discovered unde...
Asteroid from 'Rare Species' Sighted in the Cosmic Wild
Feb 08, 2019 (SPX)
A state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, detected the asteroid on January 4, 2019. Designated 2019 AQ3, the object has th...
Frequent Visitor: Asteroid Larger Than Statue of Liberty Approaches Earth
Feb 06, 2019 (JPL)
Dubbed by NASA Asteroid 2013 RV9, the minor planet is expected to swing by Earth at 6.30am GMT (UTC) on Wednesday. The distance between the asteroid and Earth w...
Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to land on asteroid on Feb 22
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said the Hayabusa2 probe is expected to touch down on the Ryugu asteroid at 8am local time on February 22. "The la...
ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited
Feb 05, 2019 (ESA)
From afar, one asteroid looks much like another, until comparing them directly. Checking the well-known scale chart prepared by the Planetary Society of all ast...
Simulating meteorite impacts in the lab
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The findings, published in the 1 February issue of the scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters (published online in advance), will aid other scie...
Ancient asteroid impacts played a role in creation of Earth's future continents
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
More than 3.8 billion years ago, in a time period called the Hadean eon, our planet Earth was constantly bombarded by asteroids, which caused the large-scale me...
The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changing
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
An outline of how those elements form as stars grow and explode and fade and merge is detailed in a review article published Jan. 31 is the journal Science. "Th...
Locations on the surface of Ryugu have been named
Jan 31, 2019 (SPX)
As the appearance of Ryugu gradually became clear during the approach phase in June 2018, we used nicknames amongst the Hayabsua2 Project team to distinguish re...
Luxembourg and Belgium join forces to develop space resources
Jan 29, 2019 (SPX)
Due to technological developments and the arrival of new players, there is growing political and commercial interest in the use and exploitation of space resour...
Japanese company seeks to pioneer artificial meteor showers
Jan 25, 2019 (Sputnik)
In order to make the venture a reality, ALE's first satellite booked a ride to space aboard a Japanese Epsilon rocket on Friday from the Uchinoura Space Center ...
Lucy has 1000 days to launch day
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
Over its 4156 day mission, Lucy will study six of these fascinating worlds. Lucy's launch period opens on October 16, 2021 - 1000 days from today. "Lucy provide...
NASA's Moon data sheds light on Earth's asteroid impact history
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
The number of asteroid impacts to the Moon and Earth increased by two to three times starting around 290 million years ago, researchers reported in a paper in t...
Earth and moon pummeled by more asteroids since the age of dinosaurs
Jan 18, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists have tried to understand the rate that asteroids hit the Earth for decades, usually by studying the craters and dating the rocks around them. The pro...
Russia Kicks Off Work on Countering 'Hazards' From Outer Space
Jan 17, 2019 (XNA)
The presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences agreed upon developing a national program to research the issues and methods of countering hazards from space, ...
Large asteroid skims past Earth
Jan 15, 2019 (Sputnik)
A huge asteroid tracked by radars only a month ago passed just a short distance away from our planet in the early hours of Monday, The Express quoted the Jet Pr...
Steam-powered asteroid hoppers developed through UCF collaboration
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
UCF planetary research scientist Phil Metzger worked with Honeybee Robotics of Pasadena, California, which developed the World Is Not Enough spacecraft prototyp...
NASA's Osiris-Rex probe takes flyby video of asteroid Bennu
Jan 10, 2019 (Sputnik)
The Osiris-Rex (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft arrived in orbit around Bennu, which orbits th...
Poor timing to diminish intensity of Quadrantid meteor shower in U.S.
Jan 03, 2019 (UPI)
For people in North America, that won't be the case this year. Though intense, the Quadrantids feature only a brief peak. For sky watchers to witness the cresce...
Osiris-REX enters close orbit around asteroid Bennu
Jan 01, 2019 (SPX)
"The team continued our long string of successes by executing the orbit-insertion maneuver perfectly," said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at...
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