Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silica
When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found ...
Tag: Comets/Asteroids
Hubble snaps close-up of celebrity comet NEOWISE
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Pagan (STScI), and Q. Zhang (Caltech) NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of comet NEOWISE, taken on ...
Arecibo Observatory returns from tropical storm Isaias lockdown to track asteroid for NASA
The National Science Foundation facility, managed by the University of Central Florida, determines that a newly discovered asteroid won't threaten ...
Iron-rich meteorites show record of core crystallization in system’s oldest planetesimals
To truly understand what makes our planet capable of sustaining life, and to look for habitable worlds elsewhere, it is ...
A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global cooling
Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago involved a major volcanic eruptionCredit: Nan Sun, University of Houston Scientists have long known ...
How stony-iron meteorites form
SAPHiR multi-anvil press solves mystery of the solar systemCredit: Dr. Nicolas P. Walte / TUM Meteorites give us insight into ...
Astronomers pinpoint the best place on Earth for a telescope: High on a frigid Antarctic plateau
Credit: Zhaohui Shang au, could offer the clearest view on Earth of the stars at night, according to new research ...
X-rays recount origin of oddball meteorites
Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to study exploring magnetization preserved for billions of years in meteorite samplesCredit: Carl Agee/Institute of Meteoritics, ...
Subaru Telescope and New Horizons explore the outer solar system
Credit: NAOJ Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper ...
Astrophysicists suggest carbon found in comet ATLAS help to reveal age of other comets
Credit: Martin Gembec Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Russia), South Korea, and the USA appear in Monthly Notices ...
The collective power of the solar system’s dark, icy bodies
Credit: Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place--filled with dark and icy bodies ...
FEFU astrophysicists revealed ten-microne silicate feature in large dust particles
Credit: FEFU press office Astrophysicists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) with colleagues from Russia and oversea have revealed that ...
NRL telescope onboard ESA, NASA SOHO discovers 4000th comet
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Karl Battams WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet ...
Rogue’s gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseries
Systematic survey of 104 nearby stars turns up 25 dust disks with evidence of planetsCredit: UC Berkeley image by Thomas ...