Active asteroid unveils fireball identity
Credit: NAOJ/Kasuga et al. At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, ...
Tag: Comets/Asteroids
Fireballs: mail from space
Is anything going to hit Earth? A neat approach to make quicker and more exact analyses of fireball observationsCredit: Riitta-Leena ...
Hubble watches interstellar comet Borisov speed past the sun
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has once again captured comet 2I/Borisov streaking through ...
Interstellar comet 2I — Borisov swings past sun
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Jewitt (UCLA) When astronomers see something in the universe that at first glance seems like ...
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on ...
How planets may form after dust sticks together
Scientists may have figured out the origins of planetsCredit: Gerhard Wurm, Tobias Steinpilz, Jens Teiser and Felix Jungmann Scientists may ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu’s mysterious particle events
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's ...
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 ...
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the termination shockCredit: Figure courtesy of Southwest Research Institute; background ...
How LISA pathfinder detected dozens of ‘comet crumbs’
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) that included NASA ...
SwRI demonstrates balloon-based solar observatory
Low-cost option breaks down barriers to solar researchCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Nov. 7, 2019 -- Southwest Research ...
WFIRST will add pieces to the dark matter puzzle
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) The true nature of dark matter is one of ...
SwRI-led Lucy mission completes critical design review
NASA mission to the Trojan asteroids enters construction phaseCredit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 21, 2019 -- The ...
Telescope seeking new planets launches via football field-sized balloon
Instrument designed and built by UMass Lowell targets Earth-like objects in space hidden by stars' glareCredit: Photo credit: NASA LOWELL, ...