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Impact Threat from Asteroid Apophis Cannot Be Ruled Out
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
"We can rule out a collision at the next closest approach with the Earth, but then the orbit will change in a way that is not fully predictable just now, so we ...
Queen's University scientist warns of asteroid danger
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons from the University's Astrophysics Research Centre has said it is a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if it...
Dutch scientists fete rare meteorite find
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
"Meteorites are very special because we do not have rocks of this age on earth," said geologist Leo Kriegsman from the Naturalis biodiversity centre in Leiden i...
Are NEOs Coming to Earth?
Jun 21, 2017 (SPX)
Most of the rocky asteroids were formed in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Earth. There is a great deal of scientific interest in N...
ESA boss urges action on 'ticking timebombs' in Earth orbit
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
The United States and individual European nations are among those keeping information close to their chest, partly for fear of revealing strategic or military s...
B612 Creates Asteroid Institute
Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)
Since its founding in 2002, B612 has served as a primary catalyst in furthering the field of planetary defense. The organization has a long history of funding r...
Rosetta finds comet connection to Earth's atmosphere
Jun 12, 2017 (ESA)
These measurements suggest that comets contributed about one fifth the amount of xenon in Earth's ancient atmosphere. Xenon - a colourless, odourless gas which ...
High-pressure experiments solve meteorite mystery
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
The scientists investigated a silicon dioxide (SiO2) mineral that is called cristobalite. "This mineral is of particular interest when studying planetary sample...
Scientists solve meteorite mystery with high-pressure X-ray experiments
Jun 07, 2017 (UPI)
Thanks to PETRA III, the X-ray light accelerator at DESY, the German research facilities, scientists finally have some answers. Researchers used high-pressure e...
NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft a Discovery Machine
Jun 06, 2017 (JPL)
The spacecraft has now characterized a total of 693 near-Earth objects since the mission was re-started in December 2013. Of these, 114 are new. The NEOWISE tea...
Inspiration Links The Beatles, a Fossil and a NASA Mission
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
Fast forward to Nov. 24, 1974, when, during a fossil-hunting expedition in Hadar, Ethiopia, anthropologist Donald Johanson and a student decided to take an alte...
First 24-hour Global Broadcast About Asteroid Impact Hazard
Jun 02, 2017 (SPX)
Asteroid Day LIVE, produced by Asteroid Day and sponsored by OHB, BCE and the Government of Luxembourg, will be distributed around the world via a dedicated SES...
'Tiny clocks' crystallize understanding of meteorite crashes
May 29, 2017 (SPX)
The pioneering technique is helping add context and insight into the age of meteor impacts. And ultimately, it provides new clues into the beginnings of life on...
NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid
May 25, 2017 (JPL)
"We challenged the mission design team to explore if an earlier launch date could provide a more efficient trajectory to the asteroid Psyche, and they came thro...
Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun
May 17, 2017 (JPL)
A new movie shows these opposition images, with contrast enhanced to highlight brightness differences. The bright spots of Occator stand out particularly well o...
Twisting an Asteroid
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
This bi-annual conference, organized by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) will discuss actions that might be taken to deflect an incoming object. ...
The Aerospace Corporation leads Asteroid Impact Exercise at IAA in Tokyo
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Aerospace, co-sponsor of this conference, brings together global experts and space agency leaders to discuss asteroid threats, mitigation strategies, and to con...
Oldest buckthorn fossilized flowers found in Argentina
May 15, 2017 (SPX)
Now, a team including Cornell researchers reports the discovery of the first fossilized flowers from South America, and perhaps the entire Southern Hemisphere, ...
Caltech: Chemical Engineer Explains Oxygen Mystery on Comets
May 09, 2017 (SPX)
The discovery that comets produce oxygen gas - also referred to as molecular oxygen or O2 - was announced in 2015 by researchers studying the comet 67P/Churyumo...
Chemical engineer explains why comets expel oxygen
May 08, 2017 (UPI)
Some researchers have argued the oxygen expelled by comets is as old as the solar system. Frozen inside the comet a few billion years ago, the molecular oxygen ...
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