IRON AND ICE

News About Asteroids And Comets

2,240 articles

Dawn Creates Guide to Vesta's Hidden Attractions
Dec 20, 2013 (JPL)
Some beauty is revealed only at a second glance. When viewed with the human eye, the giant asteroid Vesta, which was the object of scrutiny by the Dawn spacecra...
NASA's Asteroid Hunter Spacecraft Returns First Images after Reactivation
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), a spacecraft that made the most comprehensive survey to date of asteroids and comets, ha...
What happens to ISON's remains?
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
Apologies for going quiet on this site - it takes a while to recover from events like this! I have actually started several blog posts and then never gotten cha...
Countdown Begins for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission began its countdown on December 9, at 7:43 PM EST, with 999 days remaining until the opening of the mission's l...
Fire vs. Ice: The Science of ISON at Perihelion
Dec 13, 2013 (SPX)
After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. Wou...
Chinese flyby of asteroid shows space rock is rubble
Dec 12, 2013 (AFP)
China's first flyby of an asteroid shows that a gigantic space rock which once triggered a doomsday scare is essentially rubble, scientists reported on Thursday...
'Wake up' competition for Europe's sleepy comet-chaser
Dec 11, 2013 (AFP)
Citizens of Planet Earth are being invited to make a "video shout-out" to wake up a deep-space probe, Rosetta, that has been in hibernation since June 2011. The...
Wake up, Rosetta!
Dec 11, 2013 (ESA)
Think it's tough getting up in the morning when the alarm clock sounds? Imagine what it must be like waking up 673 million kilometres from the warmth of the Sun...
Subaru Telescope's Image Captures the Intricacy of Comet Lovejoy's Tail
Dec 09, 2013 (SPX)
A team of astronomers from Stony Brook University (the State University of New York at Stony Brook), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), and ...
New comet gets astronomers' attention with intricate tail structure
Dec 08, 2013 (UPI)
A telescope in Hawaii has captured images of the intricate tail of a comet named Lovejoy as it moves toward its closest approach to the sun, astronomers say. Th...
Quietly Cruising Through The Asteroid Belt
Dec 06, 2013 (JPL)
Gliding smoothly through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn continues to make good progress on its ambitious mission of exploration. It is pa...
NASA's Dawn Fills out its Ceres Dance Card
Dec 05, 2013 (JPL)
It's going to be a ball when NASA's Dawn spacecraft finally arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres, and mission managers have now inked in the schedule on Dawn's dan...
Controllers prepare for spacecraft's rendezvous with protoplanet Ceres
Dec 04, 2013 (UPI)
NASA scientists say they've finalized flight plans for the Dawn spacecraft when it arrives at the dwarf planet Ceres in late March 2015. Mission managers have f...
NASA Investigating the Life of Comet ISON
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
After several days of continued observations, scientists continue to work to determine and to understand the fate of Comet ISON: There's no doubt that the comet...
Comet ISON is confirmed dead after brush with Sun
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
A comet that grabbed attention worldwide for being likened to a massive snowball in space did not survive its brush with the Sun last week, NASA confirmed on Tu...
Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail
Dec 01, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have long been puzzled by a certain meteor shower. Every year in mid-December the sky fills with flashes of light shooting out of the constellation ...
Comet ISON probably did not survive Sun skirmish
Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)
Comet ISON seems to have perished in a much too-close encounter with the Sun, leaving only a dust trail that will disappear over time, astronomers said on Frida...
Comet ISON vanishes as it circles the sun
Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)
Comet ISON appears to have flown too close to the surface of the sun Thursday and vanished as it circled the fiery surface, astronomers said. The large block of...
Comet ISON vs. the Solar Storm
Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)
In 2007, astronomers were amazed when a solar storm hit Comet Encke. NASA STEREO spacecraft watched as a CME (coronal mass ejection) struck the comet head on an...
Will comet ISON survive its near brush with the Sun?
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
US astrophysicists are split over what will happen when the comet ISON passes near the sun Thursday, but a majority think it will break apart. Comets are frozen...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.