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First CubeSat Selected for ESA's Ramses Mission to Asteroid Apophis
Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)
Building on this technological foundation, ESA's Ramses mission is accelerating its development by integrating components previously designed for Hera. Hybrid C...
NASA Selects Scientists to Join Lucy Mission Studying Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
Feb 28, 2025 (SPX)
The Lucy mission's Participating Scientist Program for the L4 Trojans enables researchers to contribute new insights into the nature and composition of these as...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 No Longer a Significant Impact Threat
Feb 26, 2025 (SPX)
Initially detected on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, the near-Earth asteroid was quickly flagged by ESA's automated warning sy...
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid Donaldjohanson
Feb 26, 2025 (SPX)
Lucy will pass within 596 miles (960 km) of the 2-mile-wide asteroid on April 20. This second asteroid encounter for the Lucy spacecraft will serve as a dress-r...
Chance huge asteroid will hit Earth down to 0.001 percent
Feb 25, 2025 (AFP)
A week ago, the asteroid set a new record for having the highest probability of hitting Earth -- 3.1 percent according to NASA and 2.8 percent according to the ...
Chinese Scientists Identify Rocket Effect Behind Boulder Movement on Comet
Feb 21, 2025 (SPX)
Their study, published in *The Astrophysical Journal*, is based on observations made by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft during its extensiv...
Politecnico di Milano and Georgia Tech introduce new insights into asteroid deflection
Feb 21, 2025 (SPX)
Observations from telescopes such as Hubble captured a significant amount of ejecta-debris expelled from the asteroid's surface-offering critical insights to en...
Chinese Scientists Identify Rocket Effect as Key Driver of Boulder Motion on Comet
Feb 21, 2025 (SPX)
The study, recently published in *The Astrophysical Journal*, analyzed data from Rosetta, which documented the boulder's displacement by approximately 140 meter...
Dark Skies Enable New Observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Reducing Impact Probability
Feb 20, 2025 (SPX)
NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has processed new observational data submitted to th...
Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032
Feb 20, 2025 (AFP)
The drop in odds had been widely anticipated by the global astronomical community, which now broadly expects the probability the asteroid will hit Earth on Dece...
Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid
Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)
The odds that the recently discovered asteroid will hit Earth on December 22, 2032 have now risen to 3.1 percent, NASA said on Tuesday, the highest probability ...
'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASA
Feb 18, 2025 (AFP)
Despite the rising odds, experts say there is no need for alarm. The global astronomical community is closely monitoring the situation and the James Webb Space ...
Want some salt with that
Feb 18, 2025 (SPX)
Scientists from Kyoto University have detected salt minerals in samples retrieved from Ryugu during the early phase of Japan's Hayabusa2 mission. These deposits...
NASA: 1.6% chance newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth in 2032
Feb 15, 2025 (UPI)
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency are among those closely watching the asteroid that measures between 130 and 300 feet in diameter and whose traj...
Scientists analyze asteroid collision impact on climate and ecosystems
Feb 06, 2025 (SPX)
Near-Earth objects populate the solar system, with some posing a measurable risk of collision with our planet. Among them, asteroid Bennu, measuring approximate...
A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth -- how worried should we be?
Feb 05, 2025 (AFP)
It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in...
Rochester's Kevin Righter kept NASA space rocks free from contamination
Feb 03, 2025 (SPX)
Central to that team was Kevin Righter, a University of Rochester earth and environmental sciences professor who was the curation lead for the NASA mission know...
Life's building blocks in Bennu samples
Jan 30, 2025 (SPX)
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner Solar System, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of...
Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar system
Jan 30, 2025 (SPX)
Experts from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences were selected to be amongst the first in the world to inspect samples collected during NASA's seven...
NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients
Jan 30, 2025 (SPX)
The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the conditions necessary for the emergence of life were widespread across the early solar...
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