The planetary system around star HR8799 is remarkably similar to our Solar System. A research team led by astronomers from the University of Groningen and…
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This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s first asteroid…
False color map of the surface of Ryugu with craters marked by circles. Credit: © 2020 Morota et al. Ryugu’s interaction with the sun changes…
Exposure animation for asteroid 2020 HS7 as observed by the Tautenburg Observatory on April 28, 2020, a few hours after the Pan-STARRS project reported the…
Large “Potentially Hazardous” Asteroid NASA Has Been Tracking for 22 Years Will Fly Past Earth Today
Artist’s concept of a near-Earth object. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The large near-Earth object is well known to astronomers and will get no closer than 3.9 million…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Checkpoint rehearsal, which is the first time the mission will practice the…
This artist’s concept shows the trajectory and configuration of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during Checkpoint rehearsal, which is the first time the mission will practice the…
Lawrence Livermore researchers compared results of asteroid deflection simulations to experimental data and found that the strength model has a substantial effect on momentum transferred.…
The NEXT-C flight thruster is mounted within a thermal shroud in one of NASA Glenn’s vacuum chambers. The thermal shroud subjects the thruster to the…
This flat projection mosaic of asteroid Bennu shows the locations of the first 12 surface features to receive official names from the International Astronomical Union.…
As the Solar System was forming, rock and dust coalesced to form primordial bodies around the Sun. Remnants of the earliest rocky bodies could be…
MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid, taking into account an…
Near Earth objects. Credit: ESA – P.Carril. Three Leiden astronomers have shown that some asteroids that are considered harmless for now, can collide with Earth…
OSIRIS-REx orbits the asteroid Bennu. Credit: University of Arizona On February 11, 2020, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup…
During the OSIRIS-REx Reconnaissance B flyover of primary sample collection site Nightingale, the spacecraft left its safe-home orbit to pass over the sample site at…
The Yarrabubba Impact Structure. Credit: Google Earth New Research Finds Earth’s Oldest Asteroid Strike Linked to ‘Big Thaw’ Curtin University scientists have discovered Earth’s oldest…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft…
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
This 3D view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. From Feb. 12 to Feb.…
Photograph of the full disc of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, as it appeared to the Hayabusa2 spacecraft at 03:50 UTC on June 26, 2018. The…