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Great Show predicted for Perseid meteor peak on August 12-13

Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)

Sky and Telescope magazine predicts that this year's Perseid shower will reach its peak on Sunday night, August 12th, and early morning on the 13th. You will al...

What Looks Like Ceres on Earth

Jul 30, 2018 (JPL)

But these two bodies, Ceres and Earth, formed from similar materials in our solar system. And, after combing through thousands of images from NASA's Dawn spacec...

Twenty Years of Planetary Defense

Jul 24, 2018 (JPL)

The message came from the Minor Planet Center, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the worldwide repository for such observations and initial determination of asteroid...

China Focus: Capture an asteroid, bring it back to Earth?

Jul 24, 2018 (XNA)

A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to e...

Dusk for Dawn: Mission of many firsts to gather more data in home stretch

Jul 17, 2018 (JPL)

Within a few months, Dawn is expected to run out of a key fuel, hydrazine, which feeds thrusters that control its orientation and keeps it communicating with Ea...

NASA's Dawn spacecraft focused on Ceres as it nears end of mission

Jul 17, 2018 (UPI)

According to NASA, Dawn's instruments continue to observe Ceres and its unique geological features in gamma ray, infrared and visible spectra. The spacecraft al...

ATLAS Telescope Pinpoints Meteorite Impact Prediction

Jul 16, 2018 (SPX)

Although 2018 LA was discovered by a different telescope in Arizona, ATLAS played a crucial role in determining the asteroid's final destination. Prior to the A...

Observatories Team Up to Reveal Rare Double Asteroid

Jul 13, 2018 (JPL)

Near-Earth asteroid 2017 YE5 was discovered with observations provided by the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey on Dec. 21, 2017, but no details about the asteroid'...

Tiny fine particles of global impact reveals the origin of black carbon

Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)

The ratio of modern biomass vs. fossil material present in any carbon containing sample can be determined by radiocarbon dating with a particle accelerator. The...

Fragment of Impacting Asteroid Recovered in Botswana

Jul 09, 2018 (SPX)

"The biggest uncertainty we faced was to determine where exactly the meteorites fell," says Peter Jenniskens a subject expert of the SETI Institute in Californi...

Molecular oxygen in comet's atmosphere not created on its surface

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft escorted comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on its journey round the sun from August 2014 - September 2016, dropping...

Successful second deep space maneuver for OSIRIS-REx confirmed

Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)

The DSM-2 burn, which employed the spacecraft's Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM) thruster set, resulted in a 37 miles per hour (16.7 meters per second) chan...

Study reveals secret origins of asteroids and meteorites

Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)

A study appearing online in Nature Astronomy found at least 85 percent of 200,000 asteroids in the inner asteroid belt - the main source of Earth's meteorites -...

Dawn's latest orbit reveals dramatic new views of Occator crater

Jul 03, 2018 (JPL)

The flight team maneuvered the spacecraft into an orbit that dives 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the surface of Ceres and viewed Occator Crater, site of the fa...

Mapping the Threat of Small Near-Earth Asteroids

Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)

Dr. Detlef Koschny, head of the near-Earth objects team at the European Space Agency (ESA) and lecturer with the Chair of Astronautics at the Technical Universi...

New Mystery Discovered Regarding Active Asteroid Phaethon

Jul 02, 2018 (SPX)

The way an object reflects light depends not only on its albedo (the percentage of light it reflects) but also on the illumination angle. One particular effect ...

Meteor explodes unexpectedly over Russia

Jun 29, 2018 (UPI)

NASA and its scientists are part of an international effort to identify and track potentially dangerous near Earth objects, including asteroids and comets. The ...

UK scientist involved in Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

Dr. Axel Hagermann, Associate Professor in Biological and Environmental Sciences, will spend the coming months assessing data from the Hayabusa2 mission - which...

Twelfth impact structure discovered in Central Finland

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

The discovery is based on earlier geophysical studies of the area by Geological Survey of Finland. As a consequence of the field trip conducted by the Finnish-E...

Is the interstellar asteroid really a comet?

Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)

Meaning "scout from the distant past" in Hawaiian, Oumuamua was found by astronomers working with the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS1 survey as it came close...