IRON AND ICE - RADAR DAILY

Jun 24, 2014 (ESA)

An image snapped earlier this month by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft shows its target comet has quietened, demonstrating the unpredictable nature of these enigmatic ...

NASA's Swift Satellite Tallies Water Production of Mars-bound Comet

Jun 20, 2014 (SPX)

In late May, NASA's Swift satellite imaged comet Siding Spring, which will brush astonishingly close to Mars later this year. These optical and ultraviolet obse...

NASA Announces Latest Progress in Hunt for Asteroids

Jun 20, 2014 (JPL)

NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s ...

The Role Of Amateur Astronomers In Rosetta's Mission

Jun 16, 2014 (ESA)

Amateur astronomers play an important role in observational campaigns of almost every celestial object in the sky, but especially so in the area of comets. Give...

Giant Telescopes Pair Up to Image Near-Earth Asteroid

Jun 13, 2014 (JPL)

NASA scientists using Earth-based radar have produced sharp views of a recently discovered asteroid as it slid silently past our planet. Captured on June 8, 201...

NASA Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science

Jun 11, 2014 (ESA)

Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe o...

Asteroid Discovered by NASA to Pass Earth Safely

Jun 10, 2014 (JPL)

A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than o...

To Catch a Comet by the Tail

Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has been traveling for a decade to meet comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (C-G). Rosetta is expected to finally cat...

NASA aims to land on, capture asteroids within next 15 years

May 19, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

NASA researchers are at work developing a plan that not only hopes to physically place astronauts on an asteroid for the first time, but also to wrangle a space...

Rosetta's target comet is becoming active

May 16, 2014 (ESA)

The target of ESA's Rosetta mission has started to reveal its true personality as a comet, its dusty veil clearly developing over the last six weeks. The sequen...

NASA Astronauts Go Underwater to Test Tools for a Mission to an Asteroid

May 13, 2014 (SPX)

NASA is planning to send astronauts to an asteroid in the 2020s, and preparations are already being made. Stan Love and Steve Bowen have between them spent more...

Less than a year from its Ceres rendezvous

May 02, 2014 (JPL)

Less than a year from its rendezvous with dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn is continuing to make excellent progress on its ambitious interplanetary adventure. The only ...

Asteroids as Seen From Mars; A Curiosity Rover First

Apr 29, 2014 (JPL)

A new image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta. These two -- the...

Construction to Begin on NASA Spacecraft Set to Visit Asteroid in 2018

Apr 11, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's team that will conduct the first U.S. mission to collect samples from an asteroid has been given the go-ahead to begin building the spacecraft, flight in...

Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres

Apr 03, 2014 (JPL)

Powering its way through deep space, Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres. To reach its destination, the interplanetary spaceship gently reshapes its pa...

Hubble Space Telescope Spots Mars-Bound Comet Sprout Multiple Jets

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

NASA released Thursday an image of a comet that, on Oct. 19, will pass within 84,000 miles of Mars -- less than half the distance between Earth and our moon. Th...

Cosmic collision creates mini-planet with rings

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

Until now, rings of material in a disc have only been observed around giant planets like Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and especially Saturn, which is known for its ...

Comet lander awakes from long hibernation

Mar 28, 2014 (AFP)

European space experts said on Friday they had successfully reawakened a fridge-sized robot designed to make the first-ever spacecraft landing on a comet. The 1...

First Ring System Around Asteroid

Mar 27, 2014 (ESO)

Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO's La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surroun...

Comet-probing robot to wake from hibernation

Mar 26, 2014 (AFP)

A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a...