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Who owns space
Nov 27, 2015 (The Conversation)
An event of cosmic proportions occurred on November 18 when the US congress passed the Space Act of 2015 into law. The legislation will give US space firms the ...
Comet fragments best explanation of mysterious dimming star
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Was it a catastrophic collision in the star's asteroid belt? A giant impact that disrupted a nearby planet? A dusty cloud of rock and debris? A family of comets...
President Obama signs bill recognizing asteroid resource property rights into law
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, applauds President Obama who signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (H.R. 2262) into law....
NEOWISE observes carbon gases in comets
Nov 25, 2015 (JPL)
After its launch in 2009, NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft observed 163 comets during the WISE/NEOWISE prime mission. This sample from the space telescope represents t...
The colors of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system of ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, shows a surface with subtle, but significant color variations...
Secondhand Spacecraft Has Firsthand Asteroid Experience
Nov 16, 2015 (JPL)
The NEOWISE mission hunts for near-Earth objects (NEOs) using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Funded by NASA's NEO Observations Progr...
Rosetta and Philae: one year since landing on a comet
Nov 16, 2015 (ESA)
One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next y...
Mercury Gets a Meteoroid Shower from Comet Encke
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
The planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet's ten...
One year after comet touchdown, what's next for Philae?
Nov 10, 2015 (AFP)
A year ago on Thursday, the world held its collective breath as a European spacecraft dropped a tiny robot lab onto the surface of a comet hurtling towards the ...
Radar Images Provide New Details on Halloween Asteroid
Nov 04, 2015 (JPL)
The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed. NASA scientists used giant, Earth-based radio telescopes t...
Chances 'fair' for Philae contact: ground controllers
Nov 03, 2015 (AFP)
Chances are "fair" for renewed contact with Europe's robot lab Philae, hurtling through space perched on a comet, a ground controller said Tuesday, four months ...
Halloween asteroid gives us a miss, confirms ESA
Oct 29, 2015 (ESA)
An asteroid four times the size of a football pitch will miss Earth on All Hallows' Eve. The flyby highlights the need to watch for space rocks. Halloween, acco...
Rosetta finds molecular oxygen on comet 67P
Oct 28, 2015 (UPI)
The instruments of the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has identified oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, or coma, of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It'...
Dawn Heads Toward Final Orbit
Oct 28, 2015 (JPL)
NASA's Dawn spacecraft fired up its ion engine on Friday, Oct. 23, to begin its journey toward its fourth and final science orbit at dwarf planet Ceres. The spa...
Spacecraft Discovers Thousands of Doomed Comets
Oct 27, 2015 (SPX)
For an astronomer, discovering a comet can be the highlight of a lifetime. Great comets carry the names of their discoverers into history. Comet Halley, Comet L...
Researchers catch Comet Lovejoy giving away alcohol
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
Comet Lovejoy lived up to its name by releasing large amounts of alcohol as well as a type of sugar into space, according to new observations by an internationa...
NASA Calls for American Industry Ideas on ARM Spacecraft Development
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
NASA, through its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has issued a callo American industry for innovative ideas on how the agency could obtain a ...
Comet Lovejoy found to emit alcohol, sugar into space
Oct 24, 2015 (UPI)
A new discovery from the bright comet Lovejoy advances the theory that the celestial objects assisted in the development of life on Earth. According to an inter...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Begins Environmental Testing
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission is undergoing environmental testing at Lockhee...
Halloween Asteroid a Treat for Radar Astronomers
Oct 22, 2015 (JPL)
NASA scientists are tracking the upcoming Halloween flyby of asteroid 2015 TB145 with several optical observatories and the radar capabilities of the agency's D...
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