Tag: Comets/Asteroids

The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into ...

Findings lead to reclassification of Centaur as cometCredit: Courtesy Northern Arizona University Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated ...

Asteroid sampling technology, tapered liquid acquisition device tested in low gravityCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 13, 2020 -- Two ...

Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar ...

Only in the course of several million years did Arrokoth, also known by its nickname Ultima Thule, acquire its bizarre, ...

Credit: NAOJ A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of ...

Scientists utilized citizen science network to observe the objectCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 28, 2020 -- A ...

Credit: Modified after Koike et al. (2020) EPSL Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in ...

Different kinds of rocks on Ryugu provide clues to the asteroid's turbulent historyCredit: © 2020 Tatsumi et al. The asteroid ...

Meteorite study calls into doubt a popular theory about the early solar systemCredit: © Sano et al. Around 4 billion ...

Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest ...

Credit: Lockheed Martin The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon lead a new space mission to capture ...

Research uses data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx missionCredit: NASA/GSFC/University of Arizona SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 9, 2020 -- A new study ...

Understanding the origins of extremely oblique orbital angles such as these could help reveal details about the planetary formation processCredit: ...