Asteroid’s Mysterious Breakup Seen by Hubble
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. Fragile comets, comprised of ice and dust,…
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First Comet Seen by Re-Tasked NEOWISE
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen comet — its first such discovery since coming out of hibernation late last…
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Preparing for Asteroid Threats
With a mandate from the UN, ESA and other space agencies from around the world are about to establish a high-level group to help coordinate global…
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Water Vapor Discovered Around Ceres by Herschel
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapour around Ceres, the first unambiguous detection of water vapour around an object in the asteroid belt. With a…
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Retasked NEOWISE Sees Its First New Asteroid
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft has spotted a never-before-seen asteroid – its first such discovery since coming out of hibernation last year.…
Read the articleNEOWISE Spacecraft Returns First Images After Reactivation
Probe Will Assist Agency in Search for Candidates to Explore NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), a spacecraft that made the most comprehensive survey…
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Colorful Composite Images of Vesta Reveal Hidden Detail
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…
Read the article3200 Phaethon Sprouts a Dusty Tail
Every year in mid-December the sky fills with flashes of light shooting out of the constellation Gemini. The Geminids are fast, bright, and reliable. They never…
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NASA and Planetary Resources Team Up
NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement…
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Comet-Like Asteroid With 6 Tails Spotted by Hubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what they can only describe as a never-before-seen “weird and freakish object” in the asteroid belt that looks…
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