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Twin comets discovered by ESA space probe Rosetta
Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)
The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has been gearing up to attempt a comet landing. Recently, the craft discovered something surprising about its intended...
First Mission of Space Launch System with Orion Atop it to Preview Asteroid Visit
Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)
Managers in NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate have initiated a formal request to change the mission plan for the agency's first flight...
Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
Its swift motion is captured in this time-lapse movie made from a sequence of pictures taken May 8, 2013, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the time the imag...
Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space
Jun 26, 2013 (JPL)
More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected o...
NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which wa...
NASA enlists public in hunt for major asteroids
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could caus...
ALMA discovers comet factory
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers now know that planets around other stars are plentiful. But they do not fully understand how they form and there are many aspects of the formation o...
Massive Beast asteroid to have close call with Earth
Jun 07, 2013 (UPI)
The so-called Beast asteroid is expected to miss Earth by about 777,000 miles, which is a good thing because the 1,100-foot wide behemoth could do serious damag...
Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon
Jun 07, 2013 (JPL)
Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip...
Chile observatory discovers 'comet factory'
Jun 06, 2013 (AFP)
A "dust trap" surrounding a young star could help explain how planets are formed, astronomers with Chile's ALMA space observatory said on Thursday. The findings...
New Camera At WIYN Images An Asteroid With A Long Tail
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Using the new wide-field camera at the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope, astronomers have found that the peculiar asteroid P/2010 A2's tail is much longer than previous...
A 2015 Rendezvous With Dwarf Planet Ceres
Jun 04, 2013 (JPL)
Traveling from one alien world to another, Dawn is reliably powering its way through the main asteroid belt with its ion propulsion system. Vesta, the fascinati...
Hubble telescope spots bizarre asteroid sporting comet-like tail
Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)
The Hubble space telescope has revealed a bizarre asteroid, U.S. astronomers say -- one trailing a tail of dust more than 600,000 miles long. The object found s...
Large asteroid completes Earth flyby
Jun 01, 2013 (UPI)
A 1.7-mile-wide asteroid whose moon alone had the potential to cripple life on Earth passed safely by under the close watch of scientists, NASA said. The massiv...
New Images of Comet ISON Hurtling Toward the Sun
May 31, 2013 (SPX)
A new series of images from Gemini Observatory shows Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) racing toward an uncomfortably close rendezvous with the Sun. In late November the c...
NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon
May 31, 2013 (JPL)
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network...
NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members
May 30, 2013 (JPL)
Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to a new and improved family tree for asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. ...
Asteroid approaching for Earth fly-by found to have its own 'moon'
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
An asteroid that will pass by Earth Friday is in fact a binary asteroid, with a smaller asteroid orbiting a larger one like a small moon, U.S. astronomers say. ...
Telescope in Hawaii captures images of comet heading toward Earth
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
An observatory in Hawaii has captured a series of images of a comet on its way into the inner solar system hinting at coming changes, astronomers say. The time-...
Massive asteroid with moon to pass Earth today
May 29, 2013 (AFP)
An asteroid nearly two miles (three kilometers) wide is set to pass by Earth Friday with no risk of impact, offering scientists a rare chance to study a massive...
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