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NASA Seeks Proposals on Asteroid Redirect Mission Concepts Development

Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)

In support of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission - a key part of the agency's stepping stone path to send humans to Mars - agency officials are seeking proposals ...

Be an Asteroid Hunter in NASA's First Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest Series

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can ...

ESO VLT Shows Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Brighter Than Expected

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

It's back! After comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko had disappeared behind the Sun and out of the Earth's view last year in October, the target comet of ESA's Rose...

Hubble Telescope Witnesses Asteroid's Mysterious Disintegration

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. Fragile comets, comprised of ice and...

Silently and patiently streaking through the main asteroid belt

Mar 06, 2014 (JPL)

Continuing its daring mission to explore some of the last uncharted worlds in the inner solar system, Dawn remains on course and on schedule for its rendezvous ...

Astronomers spot rare asteroid break-up

Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)

Astronomers said Thursday they have witnessed the distant break-up of an asteroid, a rare event that was not caused by a violent space collision or a close enco...

NEOWISE Spies Its First Comet

Mar 05, 2014 (JPL)

NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen comet -- its first such discovery since coming...

Asteroid to make close pass by Earth

Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)

An asteroid the size of a football field is about to make a close pass by Earth but is not expected to hit or cause any damage, NASA said Wednesday. Coined 2014...

Radar Images of near-Earth Asteroid 2006 DP14

Feb 26, 2014 (JPL)

A collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2006 DP14 was generated by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldston...

Subaru Telescope Detects Rare Form of Nitrogen in Comet ISON

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

A team of astronomers, led by Ph.D. candidate Yoshiharu Shinnaka and Professor Hideyo Kawakita, both from Kyoto Sangyo University, successfully observed the Com...

Rocks around the clock: asteroids pound tiny star

Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists using CSIRO's Parkes telescope and another telescope in South Africa have found evidence that a tiny star called PSR J0738-4042 is being pounded by a...

NASA takes major step in hunt for asteroids

Feb 24, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

NASA's mission to reel in an asteroid took an important step forward when the agency recently established a new "rapid response system" intended to pinpoint the...

Astronomer spots asteroid smashing into Moon

Feb 24, 2014 (AFP)

A Spanish astronomer on Monday said he had witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a space rock ever recorded. The...

Huge asteroid passes Earth nearly one year after Chelyabinsk meteorite

Feb 20, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

A massive asteroid is scheduled to make its way past Earth Monday night. Scientists advise it will not make contact with our planet, while amateur astronomers w...

Responding to Potential Asteroid Redirect Mission Targets

Feb 18, 2014 (JPL)

One year ago, on Feb. 15, 2013, the world was witness to the dangers presented by near-Earth Objects (NEOs) when a relatively small asteroid entered Earth's atm...

A good year to find a comet

Feb 16, 2014 (ESA)

A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System. Europe's Teide ...

Russian scientists break ground in new asteriod discovery

Feb 10, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

A new name has appeared in the registry of minor planets. Researchers at the Ussuriysky Astrophysics Observatory of the Far Eastern chapter of the Russian Acade...

The Anatomy of an Asteroid

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT) has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making exquisitely ...

Riding a blue-green wake of xenon to Ceres

Feb 04, 2014 (JPL)

Dawn is continuing its trek through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Leaving behind a blue-green wake of xenon from its ion propulsion system, i...

Getting ready for asteroids

Feb 04, 2014 (ESA)

With a mandate from the UN, ESA and other space agencies from around the world are about to establish a high-level group to help coordinate global response shou...