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Dawn reveals complexities of ancient asteroidal world
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
New findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft lay the groundwork for the first geological overview of asteroid (4)Vesta and confirm the existence of not one but two ...
Throwing pebbles to divert asteroid?
May 07, 2012 (UPI)
A swarm of pebble-sized spacecraft could deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, if launched early enough, British researchers say. Aerospace engi...
Dawn Completes 800 Orbits Of Vesta
May 07, 2012 (JPL)
Dawn is wrapping up a spectacularly rewarding phase of its mission of exploration. Since descending to its low-altitude mapping orbit (LAMO) in December, the st...
Mining Asteroids - A New Industry
May 02, 2012 (SPX)
This past Wednesday a new company, Planetary Resources (PRI), announced it is serious about searching the cosmos for the first mineable asteroid. Within two yea...
Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta
Apr 26, 2012 (JPL)
Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and ...
US firm plans to mine asteroids
Apr 24, 2012 (AFP)
A startup backed by top Google executives and film director James Cameron on Tuesday unveiled a plan to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water. Planetar...
Space mining startup set for launch in US
Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)
A startup evidently devoted to mining asteroids for metals is to make its public debut Tuesday in the US northwest city of Seattle, seeking to redefine the term...
NASA Mission Wants Amateur Astronomers to Target Asteroids
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and study their characteristics. NEOs are asteroid...
Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta
Apr 20, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massiv...
NASA's Swift Monitors Departing Comet Garradd
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designa...
Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
Apr 12, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to t...
Jupiter helps Halley's Comet give us more spectacular meteor displays
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
The dramatic appearance of Halley's comet in the night sky has been observed and recorded by astronomers since 240 BC. Now a study shows that the orbital influe...
Russia Wants To Bind Satellite To Apophis Asteroid
Apr 09, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia plans to send a satellite with a radio beacon to near-Earth asteroid of 99942 Apophis for finding out how big is a threat of its collision with Earth, th...
Russia wants to puts satellite on asteroid
Apr 07, 2012 (UPI)
Russian scientists said Saturday they plan on binding a satellite with a radio beacon to an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. The purpose of the project i...
CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
CODITA has received a EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to investigate the dust input over the next 5 years. The international team, led ...
Dawn Marks 205 Years Of Humans Watching Vesta
Apr 03, 2012 (JPL)
Vesta is spending the 205th anniversary of its discovery by treating Dawn to more spectacular vistas. When Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers first spotted Vesta,...
Comet Wild2: First Evidence of Space Weathering
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Com...
New NEO Website Tool Now Available
Mar 23, 2012 (JPL)
Observers, mission planners, and other interested users are invited to use a new website tool to view a list of near-Earth asteroids that are among the most acc...
Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid
Mar 23, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surfac...
Near-miss asteroid will return next year
Mar 20, 2012 (ESA)
When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet - but not by much. The 50 m space rock is expected to come closer th...
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