Tag: Comets/Asteroids

A young planet and a bright star offer glimpses into the past and futureCredit: Elisabeth Newton HANOVER, N.H. - July ...

Credit: Mike Meyer GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Researchers picking through the contents of fossil clams from a Sarasota County quarry found ...

Nearly 50 years after our first steps on the Moon, samples from the Apollo missions, Mars and Vesta still have ...

Credit: NASA/JPL Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new ...

New analysis, co-led by UMD astronomer, suggests a natural origin for our first interstellar visitorCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser On October 19, ...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly poisons to humans, but ...

Kuiper Belt object orientations support streaming instability hypothesisCredit: HST/StSci/SwRI/Simon Porter SAN ANTONIO -- June 25, 2019 -- A Southwest Research ...

Machine learning tool allows scientists to search stellar data for likely exoplanet host starsCredit: ESO/M. Kornmesser SAN ANTONIO -- June ...

Scientists use sophisticated computer simulations and observations of trans-Neptunian objects to understand the formation of the solar systemCredit: NASA/APL/SwRI/ESA/STScI Using ...

The Comet Interceptor space mission led by UCL has been selected as the first €150M mission for the European Space ...

Credit: US Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Materials science researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have found a remnant ...

How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add ...

Reaction turns carbon dioxide into molecular oxygenCredit: Caltech Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators ...

UCR-led study finds elusive giant planetsCredit: (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise ...

Credit: Michaela Pink Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting ...

Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal ...

X-ray studies at Berkeley Lab provide evidence for source of exotic assortment of melt debrisCredit: Mario Wannier Mario Wannier, a ...

Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar historyCredit: © 2019 Rohan Mehra - Division for Strategic Public ...

Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ...

Credit: J. M. Madiedo / MIDAS Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived ...