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Latest News On Asteroids and Space Science
Asteroid Impact in 2182?Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "The total impact probability of asteroid '(101955) ...
Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso...
Newly discovered asteroid named for Nobel laureate Elie WieselLast May, a minor planet-also known as an asteroid-discovered by an amateur astronomer was officially named "Eliewiesel" in honor of 1986 Nobel Peace ...
Rosetta triumphs at asteroid LutetiaAsteroid Lutetia has been revealed as a battered world of many craters. ESA's Rosetta mission has returned the first close-up images of the asteroid s...
Heavy Metal Rock Set to Take the StageOn its way to a 2014 rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, with NASA instruments aboard, wi...
Mysterious Flash on Jupiter Left No Debris CloudDetailed observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an answer to the flash of light seen June 3 on Jupiter. It came from a giant me...
Rosetta's blind date with asteroid LutetiaESA's comet-chaser Rosetta is heading for a blind date with asteroid Lutetia. Rosetta does not yet know what Lutetia looks like but beautiful or other...
Hayabusa Asteroid Mission Comes HomeThe Hayabusa capsule and bus entered the Earth's atmosphere over Woomera, Australia, on June 13 at 11:21 p.m. local time. From the perspective of NASA...
NASA Helps in Upcoming Asteroid Mission HomecomingThe space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar. That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the sample retu...
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Fires Past Record for Speed ChangeDeep in the heart of the asteroid belt, on its way to the first of the belt's two most massive inhabitants, NASA's ion-propelled Dawn spacecraft has e...
Hubble Images Suggest Rogue Asteroid Smacked JupiterWithout warning, a mystery object struck Jupiter on July 19, 2009, leaving a dark bruise the size of the Pacific Ocean. The spot first caught the eye ...
Small Near-Earth Object Probably a Rocket PartScientists at NASA's Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have determined that a small object tha...
A Cluster and a Sea of GalaxiesA new wide-field image released today by ESO displays many thousands of distant galaxies, and more particularly a large group belonging to the massive...
Arecibo telescope tracks 'potentially dangerous' asteroid within 1.5 million miles of EarthA near-Earth asteroid named 2005 YU55 - on the list of potentially dangerous asteroids - was observed by the Arecibo telescope April 19 as it passed a...
Scientists Say Ice Lurks in Asteroid's Cold HeartScientists using a NASA funded telescope have detected water-ice and carbon-based organic compounds on the surface of an asteroid. The cold hard facts...
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