Comets/Asteroids

Tyler Robinson recognized for academic leadership, research quality and innovationCredit: Northern Arizona University A Northern Arizona University astronomer who studies the atmospheres of solar system worlds, exoplanets and brown…

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and B. Bolin (Caltech) After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place along the way. The object…

Credit: The University of Texas at Austin/ Jackson School of Geosciences Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into…

Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI). Astronomers have long been looking into the vast universe in hopes of discovering alien civilisations. But for a planet to have life, liquid water must be present. The chances of that finding…

The latest observations from Insight-HXMT were published online in Nature Astronomy on Feb. 18. Insight-HXMT has discovered the very first X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) and has identified that it originated from…

Innovative program to bring NASA subject matter experts, research findings, and educational resources into science classrooms of community collegesCredit: NASA, Tallahassee Community College February 17, 2021, Mountain View, CA -- The SETI…

New theory explains possible origin of the Chicxulub impactorCredit: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it's…

New theory explains possible origin of the Armageddon-causing object.Credit: Credit not required. This is a public domain image. It forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub…

New planetary system offers glimpse into how planets evolveCredit: Illustration courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center HANOVER, N.H. - February 12, 2021 - A newly discovered planetary system will provide researchers with the…

Credit: Image: Jean Favre CSCS. In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of our solar system. From relatively small rock and water worlds to blisteringly hot gas giants, the planets…

Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa, Scott S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution for Science) and Brooks Bays (University of Hawai?i) A team, including an astronomer from the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA), have…

Scientists have collected enough observations to determine the planetoid's orbit based on its slow motion across the skyCredit: Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa, Scott S. Sheppard (Carnegie Institution for Science) and Brooks Bays…

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Barbara Lambert/Desiree Stover With less than a year to launch, NASA's Lucy mission's third and final scientific instrument has been integrated onto the spacecraft. The spacecraft, which will be the first to…

EMIRS will provide a unique view of the lower and middle atmosphere of the planet, measuring the distribution of dust particles and ice clouds while tracking the movement of water vapor and heat through the atmosphereCredit: Credit:…

Heidelberg Ion Probe used to date Flensburg meteoriteCredit: A. Bischoff / M. Patzek, University of Münster A meteorite that fell in northern Germany in 2019 contains carbonates which are among the oldest in the solar system; it also…

Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of 700 million objectsElliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared with spiral galaxies (one of which is to the left) which have more flocculent…

Extended mission expanded to explore Jovian rings, moons SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 13, 2021 -- NASA has extended the Juno mission to explore Jupiter through September 2025, expanding the science goals to include the overall Jovian system, made…

Credit: NASA/ASU NASA's Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L'TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft. "Having two of the three instruments integrated onto the…

Credit: JAXA PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers are…

A diamond lasts forever, but that doesn't mean all diamonds have a common history Washington, DC-- A diamond lasts forever, but that doesn't mean all diamonds have a common history. Some diamonds were formed billions of years ago in…