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Minor planet named Bernard
Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)
A minor planet in the Solar System will officially be known as Bernardbowen after Australian citizen science project theSkyNet won a competition to name the cel...
Arecibo Observatory captures revealing images of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
Though not visible to the naked eye or even with binoculars, the green-tailed Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova (HMP) did not escape the gaze of the world-renow...
SwRI scientist studies geology of Ceres to understand origin of organics
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently detected organic-rich areas on Ceres. Scientists evaluated the geology of the regions to conclude that the organics are most lik...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx takes its first image of Jupiter
Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)
This magnified, cropped image showing Jupiter and three of its moons was taken by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's MapCam instrument during optical navigation tes...
Russian scientists find 13kg of meteorites in Iranian Desert
Feb 14, 2017 (Sputnik)
A team of Russian geologists from Ural Federal University recently returned from an expedition in the Lut desert in the east of Iran. The team found 13 kilogram...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Begins Earth-Trojan Asteroid Search
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
A NASA spacecraft begins its search Thursday for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects known as Earth-Trojan asteroids. OSIRIS-REx, currently on a two-year o...
Asteroid resembles dungeons and dragons dice
Feb 14, 2017 (JPL)
Radar images of asteroid 2017 BQ6 were obtained on Feb. 6 and 7 with NASA's 70-meter (230-foot) antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in Ca...
New research shows Ceres may have vanishing ice volcanoes
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mount...
Earth Narrowly Dodges Three Large Asteroids
Feb 01, 2017 (Sputnik)
A car-sized asteroid narrowly missed the Earth on Monday, January 30, six days after another asteroid the size of a house had a similar near-miss, and ten days ...
Objective: To deflect asteroids, thus preventing their collision with Earth
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
An international project, led by Spain's National Research Council, (CSIC) provides information on the effects a projectile impact would have on an asteroid. Th...
An urban collection of modern-day micrometeorites
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
More than 100 billion micrometeorites (MMs) fall to Earth each year. Until now, scientists believed that these particles could only be found in the cleanest env...
Gaia turns its eyes to asteroid hunting
Jan 25, 2017 (ESA)
Whilst best known for its surveys of the stars and mapping the Milky Way in three dimensions, ESA's Gaia has many more strings to its bow. Among them, its contr...
Micro spacecraft investigates cometary water mystery
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
In September 2015, a team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Michigan, Kyoto Sangyo University, Rikkyo University...
Cash crunch for anti-Armageddon asteroid mission
Jan 25, 2017 (AFP)
A mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid moon to alter its trajectory, a possible dry-run for an exercise in saving the Earth from Armageddon, has run i...
Rare meteorites challenge our understanding of the solar system
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered minerals from 43 meteorites that landed on Earth 470 million years ago. More than half of the mineral grains are from meteorites com...
Today's rare meteorites were once common
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Four hundred and sixty-six million years ago, there was a giant collision in outer space. Something hit an asteroid and broke it apart, sending chunks of rock f...
Observations of Ceres indicate that asteroids might be camouflaged
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
The appearance of small bodies in the outer solar system could be deceiving. Asteroids and dwarf planets may be camouflaged with an outer layer of material that...
Successful Deep Space Maneuver for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
New tracking data confirms that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aced its first Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-1) on Dec. 28, 2016. The engine burn sets up the spacecraft...
How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
66 million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind's reign on Earth. Climate scie...
Asteroid sleuths go back to the future
Jan 11, 2017 (ESA)
Careful sleuthing through decade-old images has enabled ESA's asteroid team to decide that a newly discovered space rock poses little threat of hitting Earth an...
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