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NASA Posts Final Asteroid Workshop Report
Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)
In 2013, NASA kicked off the Asteroid Redirect Mission and the Asteroid Grand Challenge, collectively known as the Asteroid Initiative. On June 18, we issued a ...
Rogue asteroids may be the norm
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets m...
Asteroid Diversity Points to a Snow Globe Solar System
Jan 31, 2014 (SPX)
Our solar system seems like a neat and orderly place, with small, rocky worlds near the Sun and big, gaseous worlds farther out, all eight planets following orb...
Rosetta wide awake as check-up continues
Jan 31, 2014 (ESA)
Following last week's wake-up of the Rosetta comet-chaser, ESA's flight controllers have conducted the first in a series of health checks aimed at assessing how...
NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown
Jan 28, 2014 (JPL)
Three NASA science instruments are being prepared for check-out operations aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the fir...
NEOWISE Celebrates First Month of Operations After Reactivation
Jan 27, 2014 (JPL)
In its first 25 days of operations, the newly reactivated NEOWISE mission has detected 857 minor bodies in our solar system, including 22 near-Earth objects (NE...
Rosetta: To Chase a Comet
Jan 22, 2014 (JPL)
Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visi...
Rosetta Spacecraft Waking Up for Final Leg of Comet Landing
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
The first spacecraft to orbit a comet and land a probe on these icy nomads is now waking up after more than two years of slumber, and videos filmed as part of a...
Rosetta, ESA's 'sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation
Jan 21, 2014 (ESA)
Rosetta, ESA's 'sleeping beauty' wakes up from deep space hibernation It was a fairy-tale ending to a tense chapter in the story of the Rosetta space mission th...
'Sleeping beauty' comet probe awakens from slumber
Jan 20, 2014 (AFP)
The European probe Rosetta woke up Monday after a 31-month hibernation in a nearly decade-old quest to explore a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) announce...
NASA Invites Public to Send Names on an Asteroid Mission and Beyond
Jan 19, 2014 (JPL)
NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to be etched on a microchip aboard a spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in 2016. The "Messag...
Comet-chasing probe to be roused from sleep
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
One of the most ambitious missions in the history of space goes into high-risk mode on Monday when Europe rouses a comet-chasing probe from years of hibernation...
NASA warns of 'potentially hazardous' asteroid
Jan 15, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
A new, "potentially hazardous" asteroid has been discovered by one of NASA's recently reactivated spacecraft - and it's headed in Earth's direction. The new ast...
ISEF-riding an asteroid to the future
Jan 15, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
On Thursday, Washington, D.C. hosted the first ever ministerial-level meeting of space-faring countries. High-ranking officials from more than thirty nations ca...
U of Maryland undergraduates discover rare eclipsing double asteroid
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
Students in a University of Maryland undergraduate astronomy class have made a rare discovery that wowed professional astronomers: a previously unstudied astero...
Recently Reactivated NASA Spacecraft Spots Its First New Asteroid
Jan 10, 2014 (JPL)
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid -- its first such discovery since com...
The First Discovered Asteroid of 2014 Collides With The Earth - An Update
Jan 06, 2014 (JPL)
Several sources confirm that the first discovered asteroid of 2014, designated 2014 AA, entered the Earth's atmosphere late January 1 EST over the mid-Atlantic ...
First Asteroid Discovered in 2014 Has Little Impact
Jan 03, 2014 (JPL)
Early Wednesday morning January 1st, while New Year's 2014 celebrations were still underway in the United States, the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, AZ, colle...
Dawn passes halfway mark to Ceres
Jan 03, 2014 (JPL)
Now more than halfway through its journey from protoplanet Vesta to dwarf planet Ceres, Dawn is continuing to use its advanced ion propulsion system to reshape ...
Dwarf Planet Ceres - 'A Game Changer in the Solar System'
Dec 26, 2013 (SPX)
In March of 2015, NASA's Dawn mission will arrive at the dwarf planet Ceres, the first of the smaller class of planets to be discovered and the closest to Earth...
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