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Sandbox craters reveal secrets of planetary splash marks and lost meteorites
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
But very rarely, a piece large enough to survive the intense heat of entry manages to fall all the way down to the Earth's surface, where its galactic journey e...
Japan space probe reaches asteroid in search for origin of life
Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)
The Hayabusa2 probe successfully settled into an observation position 20 kilometres (12 miles) above the Ryugu asteroid, officials from the Japan Aerospace Expl...
Earth's first mission to a binary asteroid, for planetary defence
Jun 26, 2018 (ESA)
Named for the Greek goddess of marriage, Hera would fly to the Didymos pair of Near-Earth asteroids: the 780 m-diameter mountain-sized main body is orbited by a...
Rosetta image archive complete
Jun 25, 2018 (ESA)
The images were delivered by the OSIRIS camera team to ESA in May and have now been processed and released in both the Archive Image Browser and the Planetary S...
NASA, federal agencies aim to be better prepared for near-Earth objects
Jun 20, 2018 (UPI)
A new interagency report offers plans for improving the government's ability to detect, predict, plan for and respond to a near-Earth object impact. "The Nation...
Hayabusa2 and MASCOT lander nearing Ryugu
Jun 19, 2018 (SPX)
They are finally closing in on their destination asteroid - Ryugu. As of 14 June 2018, the distance between Hayabusa2 and Ryugu is less than 770 kilometres and ...
What prevents space companies from mining asteroids for rare minerals
Jun 18, 2018 (Sputnik)
While certain rare resources lie buried deep beneath areas of the Earth that are difficult to access, most of them lie attractively close to the surface in area...
Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
Jun 14, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published recently in Geophysical Research Letters, raise intriguing questions about how those organics got to the surface of Ceres, and the metho...
What it takes to discover small rocks in space
Jun 08, 2018 (SPX)
Despite their relative frequency, of all the small space rocks that have impacted Earth, only three have been spotted by telescopes during the final hours of th...
NEOWISE Thermal Data Reveal Surface Properties of Over 100 Asteroids
Jun 05, 2018 (JPL)
When seen by optical telescopes, these individual sources of reflected sunlight can provide some very valuable but also very basic information - for example, th...
Tiny asteroid first discovered Saturday disintegrates over Africa
Jun 04, 2018 (JPL)
Although there was not enough tracking data to make precise predictions ahead of time, a swath of possible locations was calculated stretching from Southern Afr...
Dawn mission enters new orbit ahead of new opportunities
Jun 01, 2018 (JPL)
In early June, Dawn will reach its new, final orbit above Ceres. Soon after, it will begin collecting images and other science data from an unprecedented vantag...
Life recovered rapidly at impact site of dino-killing asteroid
May 31, 2018 (SPX)
Although the asteroid killed off species, new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the crater it left behind was home to sea life le...
Did the Chicxulub asteroid knock Earth's thermometer out of the ballpark?
May 28, 2018 (SPX)
It therefore provides valuable insights into what may happen from sudden, extreme environmental changes. The aftereffects of the Chicxulub impact remain debated...
Rosetta unravels formation of sunrise jets
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
A new study, led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany and published in the journal Nature Astronomy, now identifies the rugged...
Discovery of the first body in the Solar System with an extrasolar origin
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
Could some bodies in our Solar System come from the vicinity of other stars? Astronomers are in disagreement about comets, with some arguing that certain comets...
Rosetta illuminates origins of sunrise jets on comet 67P
May 23, 2018 (UPI)
Sunrise jets are narrow strands of gas and dust extending from a comet's surface. They spring to life when a comet moves into the inner solar system and become ...
Interstellar asteroid in orbit around our Sun
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
The object known as 'Oumuamua was the last interstellar interloper to hit the First Interstellar Immigrant Discovered in the Solar Systems in 2017. However, it ...
Football field-sized asteroid to shave by Earth
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
The space rock was discovered in 2010, but only recently did astronomers determine it would not collide with our planet, instead passing at a distance about hal...
Asteroid Institute Announces Program with York Space Systems to Explore Low-Cost Space-Based Asteroid Tracking System
May 11, 2018 (SPX)
"We are tremendously impressed with York's capabilities, facilities and engineering expertise to initiate this collaboration," stated B612 President Danica Remy...
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