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Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System

May 09, 2018 (SPX)

The early days of our Solar System were a tempestuous time. Theoretical models of this period predict that after the gas giants formed they rampaged through the...

Projectile cannon experiments show how asteroids can deliver water

Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)

"The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is one of the big questions in planetary science," said Terik Daly, a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hop...

Four Years of NASA NEOWISE Data

Apr 23, 2018 (JPL)

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of the planets in our solar system into orbits that all...

Lyrid meteor shower to peak over the weekend

Apr 20, 2018 (UPI)

Saturday night will offer sky-watchers the best chance to take in the shooting stars, but Friday and Sunday nights will host a handful of meteors, too. "The sho...

Close Call: Giant Asteroid Flies Through the Earth-Moon Orbit

Apr 17, 2018 (Sputnik)

A "Tunguska-class" asteroid was first spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey out of the University of Arizona on April 14. The asteroid, 2018 GE3, flew by just hour...

Trail of glassy beads helps scientists track down missing crater

Apr 05, 2018 (UPI)

When the 12-mile-wide meteor struck Earth, debris was exploded in the sky and deposited across the region. The fragments have not been hard to come by, and yet,...

Here, There and Everywhere: Across the Universe with the Beatles

Apr 04, 2018 (SPX)

In 'Here, There and Everywhere', inspired by the book 'La scienza dei Beatles' ('The science of the Beatles'), Viviana Ambrosi shows how the Fab Four can bring ...

A star disturbed the comets of the solar system in prehistory

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

At a time when modern humans were beginning to leave Africa and the Neanderthals were living on our planet, Scholz's star - named after the German astronomer wh...

NASA plans giant spacecraft to defend Earth by nuking deadly asteroids

Mar 18, 2018 (SPX)

The 9-meter-tall, 8.8-ton spacecraft - dubbed HAMMER (Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response vehicle) - features a modular design that...

NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface

Mar 15, 2018 (JPL)

NASA's Dawn mission has found recently exposed deposits that give us new information on the materials in the crust and how they are changing, according to two p...

Russian physicists make toy asteroids and blast them with a laser

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

The modeling technique developed in this study is a way of experimentally evaluating asteroid destruction criteria such as the explosion energy needed to elimin...

Russian scientists use lasers to destroy mini asteroids

Mar 14, 2018 (UPI)

The results of their experiments -- published in the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics -- could help scientists better understand the type of expl...

Lessons from the Tunguska event

Mar 07, 2018 (Sputnik)

Large asteroids of up to one kilometer in diameter are feared to come into dangerous proximity to Earth in the coming years, "Antistikhiya" center of Russian Em...

Comet Chury formed by a catastrophic collision

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

Ever since Giotto visited Halley's comet in 1986, a few spacecraft have flown close to several cometary nuclei. It turns out that most of them appeared to be el...

Asteroid Institute announces Tech Partners for the ADAM asteroid mapping project

Mar 03, 2018 (SPX)

The ADAM Cloud Platform will support transparent analysis of asteroid data with open and published algorithms. The fact that scientists worldwide will be able t...

Hayabusa2 has detected Ryugu

Mar 03, 2018 (SPX)

Data for nine of these images were transmitted from the spacecraft on February 27th, allowing us to confirm that Ryugu had indeed been seen. The animation shows...

Watch an asteroid pass between Earth and the moon on Friday

Mar 01, 2018 (UPI)

They flyby will be streamed live online by the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroid 2018 DV1 will reach its closest point to Earth at approximately 12:54 p.m. ET...

Five Years after the Chelyabinsk Meteor: NASA Leads Efforts in Planetary Defense

Feb 16, 2018 (JPL)

The house-sized asteroid entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk at over eleven miles per second and blew apart 14 miles above the ground. The explosion release...

Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub meteor strike

Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)

The research, published in Science Advances, points to changes in the strength of gravity above the seafloor, which indicate a transient period of increased vol...

Evidence for a massive biomass burning event at the Younger Dryas Boundary

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

That juncture in the planet's geologic history - marked by a distinct layer called the Younger Dryas Boundary - features many anomalies that support the theory ...