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Researchers identify 12 'easy' candidates for asteroid mining

Aug 13, 2013 (UPI)

Researchers in Scotland say they have identified 12 easily retrievable asteroids that could be moved close enough to Earth for them to be mined. Among the popul...

New NASA Mission to Help Us Learn How to Mine Asteroids

Aug 12, 2013 (SPX)

Over the last hundred years, the human population has exploded from about 1.5 billion to more than seven billion, driving an ever-increasing demand for resource...

'Lazarus comets' explain Solar System mystery

Aug 04, 2013 (AFP)

Astronomers on Friday said a vast cemetery of comets lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, some revived by a nudge from the Sun after millions of ...

Astronomers say 'Lazarus' comets in cosmic graveyard come back to life

Aug 02, 2013 (UPI)

Astronomers in Colombia say they've observed a comet graveyard where some, inactive for millions of years, can return to life as "Lazarus comets." In the last d...

Dawn's Arrays Keep It Powering Along

Aug 01, 2013 (JPL)

Powering its way through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn continues on course and on schedule for its 2015 appointment with dwarf planet Ce...

NASA Completes First Internal Review of Concepts for Asteroid Redirect Mission

Aug 01, 2013 (SPX)

NASA has completed the first step toward a mission to find and capture a near-Earth asteroid, redirect it to a stable lunar orbit and send humans to study it. I...

NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas

Jul 30, 2013 (SPX)

NASA has received more than 400 responses to its request for information (RFI) on the agency's asteroid initiative, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced F...

NASA's Wise Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets

Jul 26, 2013 (JPL)

The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are th...

Spitzer Observes Gas Emission From Comet ISON

Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pas...

NASA's Hubble: Galaxies, Comets, and Stars! Oh My!

Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)

Approaching the sun, Comet ISON floats against a seemingly infinite backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars. The icy visitor, with its l...

NASA's Mars orbiters to witness comet flyby

Jul 25, 2013 (UPI)

Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring won't whiz by Mars for another two-plus months, but NASA is already preparing its Mars orbiters for the flyby. Currently, NASA has...

Gas, dust observed streaming from 'soda-pop' comet approaching Earth

Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)

NASA says a space telescope spotted what are likely strong carbon dioxide emissions from a comet that will pass through the inner solar system this year. Images...

NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign

Jul 23, 2013 (JPL)

In 1680, Kirch's comet lit up the nighttime skies, and was even briefly visible in broad daylight. With a remarkably similar orbit to that of Comet ISON, can we...

Target Asteroid 2002 GT Tracked by European Teams

Jul 23, 2013 (ESA)

In a recent close-ish flyby, asteroid 2002 GT was studied in detail for the first time by a network of European astronomers. The observations were coordinated b...

Researcher Seeks New Way to Study Asteroid and Comet Interiors

Jul 22, 2013 (SPX)

Thomas H. Prettyman, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, has been awarded funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program to ...

House vote shoots down plans for manned asteroid mission

Jul 19, 2013 (UPI)

A U.S. House committee has rejected funding for a manned mission to an asteroid, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's human space exploration proposal. T...

Space Systems/Loral conducting technology studies for NASA

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

Space Systems/Loral reports it has been chosen by NASA to study system concepts and technologies for the NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission. The value of the contra...

A Timeline Of Comet ISON's Dangerous Journey

Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)

A comet's journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches Ma...

Senate Dems favor allowing NASA to go ahead with asteroid capture plan

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

U.S. Senate Democrats say a new bill would allow NASA to go ahead with its plan to lasso an asteroid as part of a future mission to send astronauts to Mars. The...

Vesta Topography Map

Jul 17, 2013 (JPL)

This color-coded topography map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the giant asteroid Vesta in an equirectangular projection at 32 pixels per degree, relative to an...