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Natural quasicrystals may be the result of collisions between objects in the asteroid belt
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Naturally formed quasicrystals - crystal-like solids with supposedly impossible symmetries - are among the rarest structures on Earth. Only two have ever been f...
Planetary Resources and Luxembourg partner to advance space resource industry
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Planetary Resources has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the banking institut...
Gamers Tackle Virtual Asteroid Sampling Mission
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Mission: Build a replica of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and successfully return an asteroid sample to Earth. That's the challenge OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist Jas...
Scientists reconstruct the history of asteroid collisions
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
An international study, in which Spain's National Research Council (CSIC) participates, reveals that asteroids have endured a multitude of impact strikes since ...
Luxembourg takes first steps to asteroid mining law
Jun 03, 2016 (AFP)
One of Europe's smallest states, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, cast its eyes to the cosmos on Friday, announcing it would draw up a law to facilitate mining on...
Study shows how comets break up, make up
Jun 02, 2016 (SPX)
For some comets, breaking up is not that hard to do. A new study led by Purdue University and the University of Colorado Boulder indicates the bodies of some pe...
Europe's comet orbiter back after 'dramatic' silence
Jun 02, 2016 (AFP)
Europe's trailblazing spacecraft Rosetta has resumed its exploration of a comet hurtling through the Solar System after a "dramatic weekend" in which contact wi...
Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko contains ingredients for life
May 31, 2016 (SPX)
Ingredients crucial for the origin of life on Earth, including the simple amino acid glycine and phosphorus, key components of DNA and cell membranes, have been...
NASA Response to Recent Paper on NEOWISE Asteroid Size Results
May 26, 2016 (SPX)
A paper posted Sunday by Nathan Myhrvold to ArXiv.org and described in an article by reporter Ken Chang in the May 23 New York Times discusses interpretations o...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will have a map for that
May 26, 2016 (SPX)
On Sept. 8, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch for terra incognita: the unknown surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Like expeditions of o...
NASA Begins Launch Preparations for the First U.S. Asteroid Sampling Mission
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
NASA's first spacecraft designed to return a piece of an asteroid to Earth arrived Friday, May 20, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and has begu...
The Book on the Birthplace of Planetary Science
May 23, 2016 (SPX)
Tucson AZ (SPX) May 23, 2016 With the countdown underway to September's launch of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, University of Arizona alumna Me...
Cambridge: Evidence of Comets Orbiting a Sun-like Star
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of astronomers have found evidence of ice and comets orbiting a nearby Sun-like star, which could give a glimpse into how our own solar sy...
Close-up Hubble images show new details of comet
May 16, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured images of Comet 252P/LINEAR just after a close encounter with Earth on March 21. The close proximity to...
Asteroid Mining - What the Heck
May 12, 2016 (SPX)
The concept of commercializing space has become quite popular among entrepreneurs who sense that there are many possible profit-making opportunities awaiting ad...
DSI and Luxembourg partner to commercialize space resources
May 08, 2016 (SPX)
Asteroid mining company Deep Space Industries, together with the Luxembourg Government and the Societe Nationale de Credit et d'Investissement (SNCI), the natio...
Comet from Oort Cloud brings clues about solar system's origins
Apr 29, 2016 (UPI)
A newly identified comet may offer insights into the formation of the solar system. Scientists believe the comet is composed of materials that once made up the ...
Elektra: A New Triple Asteroid
Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a new satellite orbiting the main belt asteroid (130) Elektra - the smallest object visible in this image. The team, led by Bin Yang...
New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters
Apr 20, 2016 (JPL)
Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission. In its lowest-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of 240 mile...
Comets in the X-treme
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
For millennia, people on Earth have watched comets in the sky. Many ancient cultures saw comets as the harbingers of doom, but today scientists know that comets...
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