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Large asteroid to safely pass Earth on September 1

Aug 21, 2017 (JPL)

Florence is among the largest near-Earth asteroids that are several miles in size; measurements from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and NEOWISE mission indicate...

Asteroid Apophis has One in 100,000 chance of hitting Earth

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

"We cannot yet exclude the possibility that it could impact our planet, but we can calculate that the chance of Earth impact is only a 1-in-100-thousand over th...

Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017

Aug 14, 2017 (ESA)

Astronomers recently spotted asteroid 2012 TC4 under a collaboration between ESA and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to locate faint objects that might ...

How to watch this weekend's Perseid meteor shower

Aug 11, 2017 (UPI)

There is one problem, however: a near-full moon. The moon turned full on August 7. By Saturday, the moon will be an 80 percent full waning gibbous. Clouds and l...

Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESA

Aug 10, 2017 (AFP)

The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) -- an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, accordin...

SwRI part of international team identifying primordial asteroids

Aug 04, 2017 (SPX)

The main belt contains vast numbers of irregularly shaped asteroids, also known as planetesimals, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. As improved telesco...

Supernova-Hunting Team Finds Comet with Aid of Amateur Astronomer

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Called the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), the international collaboration, which is headquartered at the Ohio State University, uses a netwo...

Upcoming asteroid flyby will help Planetary Defense Network

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has conducted such preparedness drills rehearsing various aspects of an asteroid impact, such as deflection, evacuation and disaster relief, with other ent...

Asteroid Flyby Will Benefit NASA Detection and Tracking Network

Jul 31, 2017 (JPL)

The target of all this attention is asteroid 2012 TC4 - a small asteroid estimated to be between 30 and 100 feet (10 and 30 meters) in size. On Oct. 12, TC4 wil...

Exploring an unusual metal asteroid

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

The mission does not launch until 2023, but preparations have begun in collaboration with faculty in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences...

Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought

Jul 26, 2017 (JPL)

NASA's WISE spacecraft, scanning the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, has delivered new insights about these distant wanderers. Scientists found that there a...

Fear is powerful enough to wipe out a species

Jul 24, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists at Canada's McGill University exposed fruit flies to a pheromone produced by praying mantises, one of the species main predators. The smell was enoug...

Ancient, massive asteroid impact could explain Martian geological mysteries

Jul 20, 2017 (SPX)

New research by University of Colorado Boulder professor Stephen Mojzsis outlines a likely cause for these mysterious features of Mars: a colossal impact with a...

Pitted Materials in Craters Could Indicate Buried Ice on Asteroids

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

"Pitted terrains may be common morphological markers of volatile-rich near-surface material in the asteroid belt," Sizemore said. "Wherever we send a spacecraft...

NASA'S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

"DART would be NASA's first mission to demonstrate what's known as the kinetic impactor technique - striking the asteroid to shift its orbit - to defend against...

Bizarro comet challenging researchers

Jul 06, 2017 (SPX)

"This is another clue that Echeclus is a bizarre solar system object," said University of South Florida physics research Professor Maria Womack, who leads the t...

How a Speck of Light Becomes an Asteroid

Jul 03, 2017 (JPL)

Piazzi knew that real stars were so far away that they never wandered - that they always appeared in the sky as fixed in location relative to each other. Due to...

NASA is building computer models of possible asteroid impact scenarios

Jun 30, 2017 (UPI)

NASA hope the models will help emergency responders and other decision makers prepare for and prevent the consequences of life-threatening asteroid impacts. The...

Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'?

Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)

When the next big impact will be, nobody knows. But the pressure is on to predict -- and intercept -- its arrival. "Sooner or later we will get... a minor or ma...

The Bee-Zed asteroid orbits in the opposite direction to planets

Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)

The asteroid with the retrograde co-orbit was identified by Helena Morais, a professor at Sao Paulo State University's Institute of Geosciences and Exact Scienc...