Tag: Comets/Asteroids

A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their ...

The trick is spotting the near-Earth objects first, according to NASA researchers presenting at the 2019 APS April meeting in ...

New technique doubles resolution of angular size measurementsCredit: DESY, Lucid Berlin Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialised on cosmic ...

LAWRENCE -- A study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a scientific ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Meech and J. Kleyna (University of Hawaii), and O. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory) A small asteroid ...

Research led by the University of Colorado Boulder is revealing the Alice in Wonderland-like physics that govern gravity near the ...

Credit: Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 13, 2019) -- NASA officials say that some rare ...

Geologic and paleontological evidence unearthed in southern Chile supports the theory that a major cosmic impact event occurred approximately 12,800 ...

Space economy estimated at $1.1 trillion by 2040Credit: UCF: Karen Norum Before civilization can move off world it must make ...

Credit: Charles El Mir/Johns Hopkins University A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could ...

New precise ages for Deccan Traps volcanoes ties the second major eruption pulse to the mass extinctionCredit: Gerta Keller, Department ...

UC Riverside astronomers develop educational workshop converting astronomical phenomena into vibrations that can be felt rather than heard Astronomers at ...

Credit: University of Warwick Iridium - a rare metal on earth from the meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs - attached ...