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SwRI-led team telescope effort reveals asteroid's size for the first time
Nov 11, 2014 (SPX)
When the double asteroid Patroclus-Menoetius passed directly in front of a star on the night of Oct. 20, a team of volunteer astronomers across the U.S. was wai...
Final checks for first-ever comet landing
Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists were going through a final systems checklist Tuesday for the first-ever landing on a comet, the culmination of a dream to explore the origins of the ...
Rosetta Races Toward Comet Touchdown
Nov 09, 2014 (JPL)
After sailing through space for more than 10 years, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is now less than a week shy of landing a robotic probe on a c...
Europe set to make space history with comet landing
Nov 08, 2014 (AFP)
One of the biggest gambles in space history comes to a climax on Wednesday when Europe attempts to make the first-ever landing on a comet. Speeding towards the ...
From doomsday to fact: Science lifts veil on comets
Nov 08, 2014 (AFP)
For millennia, the sight of a comet filled humans with awe or dread. The birth of Jesus, the assassination of Julius Caesar, the Great Plague of London, the com...
Birth of planets revealed in concentric rings of comets, asteroids and dust
Nov 07, 2014 (SPX)
Astronomers have captured the best image ever of planet formation around an infant star as part of the testing and verification process for the Atacama Large Mi...
Farewell 'J', hello Agilkia
Nov 06, 2014 (JPL)
The site where Rosetta's Philae lander is scheduled to touch down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November now has a name: Agilkia. The landing site, p...
How to Land on a Comet
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Generally speaking, space missions fall into one of three categories: difficult, more difficult, and ridiculously difficult. Flybys are difficult. A spaceship t...
NASA Team Advances Next-Generation 3D-Imaging Lidar
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Building, fixing, and refueling space-based assets or rendezvousing with a comet or asteroid will require a robotic vehicle and a super-precise, high-resolution...
Solving the mystery of life by exploring Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Nov 05, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Within a few days, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will drop a tiny lander called Philae onto the surface of a mysterious comet, 67P/Churyumov-Ge...
How a giant impact formed asteroid Vesta's 'belt'
Nov 04, 2014 (SPX)
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft visited the asteroid Vesta in 2011, it showed that deep grooves that circle the asteroid's equator like a cosmic belt were probably ...
To Agilkia... and beyond: Comet landing site is named
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
Will space historians one day say "Agilkia" with the same awe as they utter "Tranquility Base," where in 1969 Man first walked on the Moon? Agilkia -- called af...
Richard Binzel on NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission
Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)
By the end of this decade, NASA hopes to lasso a space rock: The space agency is actively pursuing proposals for its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) - a mission...
Rosetta: the ambition to turn science fiction into science fact
Oct 29, 2014 (ESA)
Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets. They levitat...
Churyumov-Gerasimenko Scrambling Its Jets
Oct 28, 2014 (JPL)
This image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) on Sept. 20, from a distan...
European Scientists Discover Smell of a Comet
Oct 27, 2014 (ESA)
Scientists at the European Space Agency have discovered the smell of a comet: rotten eggs, urine and formaldehyde. In their blog the scientists commented, "If y...
MAVEN Ultraviolet Image of Comet Siding Spring's Hydrogen Coma
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft obtained this ultraviolet image of hydrogen surrounding comet Siding Spring on Friday, Oct. 17,...
Close Encounters: Comet Siding Spring Seen Next to Mars
Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has produced a unique composite image of comet Siding Spring as it made its never-before-seen close passage of a comet by Mars. Si...
With comet film, ESA boldy goes into sci-fi
Oct 27, 2014 (AFP)
Belying its austere reputation for pure science and the search for fact, the European Space Agency (ESA) is branching out -- into fantasy film-making. ESA has r...
Two families of comets found around nearby star
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Beta Pictoris is a young star located about 63 light-years from the Sun. It is only about 20 million years old and is surrounded by a huge disc of material - a ...
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