Comets/Asteroids

Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field camera mounted on the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope, is used…

Credit: This image is free for use if used in direct connection with this story but image copyright and credit must be University of Warwick/Mark Garlick An exploding white dwarf star blasted itself out of its orbit with another…

Credit: Dr Jacob Kegerreis, Durham University The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to new research. Research led…

New research provides important information in improving the accuracy of data collection on asteroids Recent NASA missions to asteroids have gathered important data about the early evolution of our Solar System, planet formation, and how…

Credit: Martin Gembec Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia), South Korea, and the USA appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggesting carbon indicates time comets have spent in…

Credit: FEFU press office Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that large and dense particles with irregular shapes possess a 10 nm silicate feature…

Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.…

Credit: © University of Warwick/Mark Garlick The newly discovered exoplanet TOI 849 b offers the unique opportunity to peer inside the interior of a planet and learn about its composition. It orbits around a star about…

Credit: Fabio Manucci Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which struck the Earth off the coast of Mexico…

CODEX designed to determine age of rocks on Mars, the Moon without having to return samples Credit: Tom Whitaker, SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- June 29, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute scientists have increased the speed and…

Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric…

Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planets Credit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas Esposito Astronomers this month released the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of debris…

Asteroid Didymos' moon receives its new name just over a year before deflection mission launchCredit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid…

SwRI also developing ion instrument to study electrodynamics in the polar cuspsCredit: NASA/Jamie Adkins SAN ANTONIO -- June 22, 2020 -- NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites…

The use of a tether assisted system could prevent an asteroid impacting Earth without the risk of fragmentation Our planet exists within the vicinity of thousands of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), some of which - ?Potentially Hazardous…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO -- the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft's…

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from space for the first time - a discovery that could teach us more…

Researchers wonder: Could they have delivered water to the early Earth?Credit: Ogliore Lab The formation of our solar system was a messy affair. Most of the material that existed before its formation -- material formed around…

Credit: Northrop Grumman To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it to deploy and extend a critical part of the observatory known as the Deployable Tower Assembly.…

Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, snow-covered block with a volume of more than 1500 cubic meters suddenly detached from the summit of Mel…