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NASA's Newly Announced Mission Could Solve the Mystery of Water on Asteroid Psyche
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis, Psyche is one of the ten most-massive asteroids in the asteroid belt. Although Psyche is thought ...
Asteroid buzzes Earth
Jan 11, 2017 (Sputnik)
On Monday morning Earth barely escaped being struck by a newly-discovered asteroid dubbed 2017 AG13.The asteroid, belonging to the Aten group of asteroids betwe...
White House releases strategy in case of 'killer asteroid'
Jan 09, 2017 (Sputnik)
The White House has published a 25-page report on 'National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy,' detailing preparations in the event that a celestial objec...
Psyche to offer unique look at early terrestrial planet formation
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
Arizona State University's Psyche Mission, a journey to a metal asteroid, has been selected for flight under NASA's Discovery Program, a series of lower-cost, h...
NASA Selects Two Missions to Explore the Early Solar System
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system - a time less than 10 ...
ASU Spectrometer to Fly on New Nasa Mission to Distant 'Trojan' Asteroids
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids has been chosen by NASA for flight under the agency's Discovery Program. Lucy will carry an ASU-designed and -dev...
SwRI to lead NASA's Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojans
Jan 05, 2017 (SPX)
NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) to lead Lucy, a landmark Discovery mission to perform the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a populatio...
Quadrantid meteor shower to peak this week in North America
Jan 02, 2017 (UPI)
A fireworks-type display of Quadrantid meteors will likely peak in North America on Tuesday or Wednesday. Astronomers disagree on the exact peak of the Quadrant...
NEOWISE mission spies one comet, maybe two
Jan 01, 2017 (JPL)
NASA's NEOWISE mission has recently discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and ...
NASA space telescope spies a comet, possibly two
Dec 30, 2016 (UPI)
NASA's NEOWISE mission unannounced the discovery of two new Near-Earth Objects this week. One of the objects is a comet, while the other is an ambiguous comet-a...
Studies refute hypothesis on what caused abrupt climate change thousands of years ago
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
Two new studies in the Journal of Quaternary Science refute the hypothesis that one or more comets/bolides struck North America approximately 12,900 years ago t...
PANIC Lander to Revolutionize Asteroid Research
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
A US-German team of researchers has proposed to develop a micro-scale low-cost surface lander for the in situ characterization of an asteroid. The tiny spacecra...
The case of the missing diamonds
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
It all began innocently enough. Tyrone Daulton, a physicist with the Institute for Materials Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, was ...
Ceres Offers Insight Into Prospects For Life in Early Solar System
Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)
Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, is pocketed with cold, dark craters, several of which are layered in ice, raising the prospects that this fri...
Rosetta's last words: science descending to a comet
Dec 19, 2016 (ESA)
On 30 September 2016, at 11:19:37 UTC in ESA's mission control, Rosetta's signal flat-lined, confirming that the spacecraft had completed its incredible mission...
Ceres: Water ice in eternal polar night
Dec 19, 2016 (SPX)
The American Dawn space probe has been orbiting the asteroid Ceres between Mars and Jupiter since March 2015. Thanks to the two identical onboard cameras from t...
Where is the Ice on Ceres
Dec 16, 2016 (JPL)
At first glance, Ceres, the largest body in the main asteroid belt, may not look icy. Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed a dark, heavily cratered ...
Searching for Trojan Asteroids, Earth's Unseen Companions
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission will take advantage of its two-year outbound cruise to the asteroid Bennu in order to conduct a search for elus...
NASA Scientists see Asteroid through the Eyes of a Robot
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
Retrieving an asteroid sample is no easy task. Doing the job blindfolded is even more challenging. That's why scientists equipped the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with...
NASA mission to search for rare asteroids
Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth will be multitasking during its two-year outbound cruise to the asteroid Bennu. On Feb. 9-20, th...
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