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Rosetta's descent towards region of active pits
Sep 12, 2016 (ESA)
Squeezing out unique scientific observations until the very end, Rosetta's thrilling mission will culminate with a descent on 30 September towards a region of a...
Small asteroid flew safely past earth this week
Sep 09, 2016 (JPL)
A small asteroid designated 2016 RB1 safely flew past Earth this week at a distance of about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers, or just less than 1/10th the dista...
Rosetta catches dusty organics
Sep 09, 2016 (ESA)
Rosetta's dust-analysing COSIMA (COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser) instrument has made the first unambiguous detection of solid organic matter in the dust p...
Asteroid Mission Will Carry Student X-Ray Experiment
Sep 08, 2016 (SPX)
At 7:05pm (EDT), Thursday, Sept. 8, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Among that spacecraft's five instruments is a studen...
NASA launches first asteroid dust-retrieval mission
Sep 08, 2016 (AFP)
The US space agency Thursday launched its first mission to collect dust from an asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials ...
OSIRIS-REx Prepared for Mapping, Sampling Mission to Asteroid Bennu
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
The first U.S. mission to travel to an asteroid, retrieve samples and return them to Earth is targeted for a Sept. 8 launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas ...
NASA set to launch near-Earth asteroid mission
Sep 07, 2016 (AFP)
US space agency NASA is poised Thursday to launch its groundbreaking first mission to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples that could shed light on the dawn...
Asteroid named for Freddie Mercury on 70th birthday
Sep 06, 2016 (AFP)
Rock legend Freddie Mercury's legacy is living on as an asteroid, named after him on what would have been the Queen singer's 70th birthday. Brian May, who is be...
Ice Not a Major Factor of Dwarf Planet Ceres' Surface Features
Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)
Although there is significant evidence of ice on the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest object in orbit between Mars and Jupiter, an analysis of the...
Sulfur, Sulfur Dioxide and Graphitized Carbon Observed on Asteroid For First Time
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
Hubble Space Telescope observations of the dwarf planet Ceres have discovered the first evidence of sulfur, sulfur dioxide and graphitized carbon found on an as...
Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
Ahuna Mons is a volcano that rises 13,000 feet high and spreads 11 miles wide at its base. This would be impressive for a volcano on Earth. But Ahuna Mons stand...
Dawn spacecraft at Ceres: Craters, cracks, and cryovolcanos
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
Six studies highlight new and unexpected insights into Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter). The results...
Coming to your solar system soon: A rendezvous with an asteroid
Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)
A group of University of Colorado Boulder researchers is readying for NASA's Sept. 8 launch of a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, thought to har...
Missing comet lander Philae spotted at last: ESA
Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft has finally spotted its tiny lander Philae, thought to be lost forever, stuck in a ditch on the surface of a comet hurtling through ...
Dawn Sets Course for Higher Orbit
Sep 01, 2016 (JPL)
After studying Ceres for more than eight months from its low-altitude science orbit, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will move higher up for different views of the dwarf...
Rosetta Captures Comet Outburst
Aug 29, 2016 (ESA)
In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide. Nine ...
From Solo Cup to an asteroid: NASA's newest space mission
Aug 21, 2016 (AFP)
The idea for a device that could unveil the origins of life in our solar system began with a Solo cup. Next month, an invention inspired by that plastic, dispos...
NASA prepares to launch first US asteroid sample return mission
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and ho...
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Completes Design Milestone
Aug 17, 2016 (JPL)
Following a key program review, NASA approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to proceed to the next phase of design and development for the mission's robot...
Bringing Home NASA's First Asteroid Samples
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Studying comet and asteroid samples may seem like science fiction, but it's all in a day's work for NASA Johnson Space Center's Planetary Mission Research Scien...
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