Tag: Comets/Asteroids

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 ...

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 ...