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• News
  2024-09-30
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• NASA Study: Asteroid’s Orbit, Shape Changed After DART Impact
  2024-03-19
  After NASA’s historic Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a JPL-led study has shown that the shape of asteroid Dimorphos has changed and its orbit has shrunk.
• NASA System Predicts Impact of a Very Small Asteroid Over Germany
  2024-01-24
  The Scout impact assessment system calculated where and when the asteroid 2024 BX1 would impact Earth’s atmosphere, providing a useful demonstration of planetary defense capability.
• CNEOS Predicts Another Small Asteroid Impact, This One over Northwestern France
  2023-02-14
  Another tiny asteroid on a collision course with Earth was detected over the weekend, and JPL’s CNEOS Scout system accurately predicted where and when the impact would happen, well before it actually occurred.
• NASA System Predicts Small Asteroid to Pass Close by Earth This Week
  2023-01-25
  On Thursday, Jan. 26, a small near-Earth asteroid will have a very close encounter with our planet. Designated 2023 BU, the asteroid will zoom over the southern tip of South America at about 4:27 p.m. PST (7:27 p.m. EST) only 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the planet’s surface and well ...
• NASA Program Predicted Impact of Small Asteroid Over Ontario, Canada
  2022-11-22
  In the early hours of Saturday, Nov. 19, the skies over southern Ontario, Canada, lit up as a tiny asteroid harmlessly streaked across the sky high in Earth’s atmosphere, broke up, and likely scattered small meteorites over the southern coastline of Lake Ontario. The fireball wasn’t a surprise. Roughly 1 ...
• US Space Force Releases Decades of Bolide Data to NASA for Planetary Defense Studies
  2022-04-07
  Hosted by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the data can be used by the science community to better understand how asteroids break up when entering the atmosphere.
• Updated Calculations Refine the Impact Probability for (29075) 1950 DA
  2022-03-29
  (29075) 1950 DA is a kilometer-sized asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth in 2880 and, because of the corresponding impact probability and size, has ranked at the top of the Sentry risk list since 2014.
• NASA System Predicts Impact of Small Asteroid
  2022-03-15
  A small asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere over the Norwegian Sea before disintegrating on March 11, 2022. But this event wasn’t a complete surprise: Astronomers knew it was on a collision course, predicting exactly where and when the impact would happen.
• NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online
  2021-12-06
  To date, nearly 28,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) have been found by survey telescopes that continually scan the night sky, adding new discoveries at a rate of about 3,000 per year. But as larger and more advanced survey telescopes turbocharge the search over the next few years, a rapid uptick in ...

NASA Jet Propulsilon Laboratory:

• New Data Confirm 2020 SO to Be the Upper Centaur Rocket Booster From the 1960's
  2020-12-02
  The object, discovered in September by astronomers searching for near-Earth asteroids, garnered interest in the planetary science community due to its size and unusual orbit.
• MOXIE Could Help Future Rockets Launch Off Mars
  2020-11-24
  NASA's Perseverance rover carries a device to convert Martian air into oxygen that, if produced on a larger scale, could be used not just for breathing, but also for fuel.
• Independent Review Indicates NASA Prepared for Mars Sample Return Campaign
  2020-11-10
  A report, released Tuesday, concludes that the agency is well positioned for its ambitious plan to bring samples back from the Red Planet for further study on Earth.
• Impact Craters Reveal Details of Titan's Dynamic Surface Weathering
  2020-10-29
  New research on nine craters of Saturn's largest moon provides more details about how weathering affects the evolution of the surface - and what lies beneath.
• NASA InSight's 'Mole' Is Out of Sight
  2020-10-16
  Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight's arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging so it can take Mars' temperature.
• This Transforming Rover Can Explore the Toughest Terrain
  2020-10-13
  Made of a pair of two-wheeled vehicles, NASA's DuAxel is designed to descend crater sides and near-vertical cliffs on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
• NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars' Surface
  2020-10-08
  The agency's newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life.
• AI Is Helping Scientists Discover Fresh Craters on Mars
  2020-10-01
  It's the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet.
• School Bus-Size Asteroid to Safely Zoom Past Earth
  2020-09-22
  Roughly 15 to 30 feet wide, the object will make its closest approach on Sept. 24.
• Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights
  2020-09-21
  An atmospheric light show previously relegated to planets and Jupiter moons is found on comet using data from ESA's Rosetta spacecraft.

Space.com

• Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS photobombs SOHO spacecraft during powerful solar flare (video)
  2024-10-09
  The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.
• Astronauts could mine asteroids for food someday, scientists say
  2024-10-09
  Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions.
• James Webb Space Telescope watches a frozen, comet-like object shooting jets of gas
  2024-10-09
  Jets of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide gas were seen coming from a centaur, but what drives them is a big mystery.

Astronomy Now

• The Perseids: the return of summer’s shooting star spectacular!
  2024-08-07
  The annual Perseid meteor shower has been underway since last month and it predicted to reach its usual eagerly-anticipated maximum early next week, on 12 August between 13h and 16h UT.

Univere Today

• Good News. Comet Encke Only Threw a Handful of Giant Space Rocks in our Direction
  2024-10-09
  As comets travel along their orbit they dump material along the way. A stream of debris known as the Taurid swarm has been keeping astronomers attention. It’s thought the debris is the remains of comet Encke which has also been fuelling the Taurid meteor shower. The swarm is believed to ...
• Hera Probe Heads Off to See Aftermath of DART’s Asteroid Impact
  2024-10-07
  The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an earlier probe knocked the mini-asteroid into a different orbital path around a bigger space rock. Scientists say the close-up observations that Hera is due to make millions of miles from ...
• Primordial Holes Could be Hiding in Planets, Asteroids, and Here on Earth
  2024-10-06
  Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black holes are believed to have formed soon after the Big Bang, resulting from pockets of subatomic matter so dense that they underwent gravitational collapse. At present, PBHs are considered a candidate ...

EarthSky

• Hera mission: Keeping Earth safe from an asteroid collision
  2024-10-08
  The Hera mission successfully launched on October 7, 2024. Hera will explore Dimorphos, which DART hit as a test of planetary defense in 2022. The post Hera mission: Keeping Earth safe from an asteroid collision first appeared on EarthSky.

The Planetary Society

• Hera launches to study the aftermath of an asteroid deflection test
  2024-10-07
  The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 2024, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will travel to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system to study the aftermath of the first-ever field test of an asteroid deflection technique.
• Cloudy skies, smooth sailing
  2024-09-27
  A Martian cloud atlas, LightSail wins big, and multiple missions coast toward launch.
• How to spot Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas
  2024-09-26
  Catch this comet over the next few days, and check back in a couple weeks when it may shine even brighter.
• The Hera launch: What to expect
  2024-09-26
  The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to launch a mission to study the aftermath of DART's impact on the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.
• New insights into asteroid properties: A STEP Grant update
  2024-09-13
  A Planetary Society-funded project to understand asteroids achieved its main goals and scientific objectives this year.
• Wow! Boom! Ultra cool!
  2024-08-23
  The “Wow!" signal has a new explanation, and an ultra-cool experiment advances quantum sensing in space. Plus, making an asteroid go “boom!” might work, depending on the circumstances.
• Ramses: A new mission racing to land on asteroid Apophis
  2024-08-22
  When a skyscraper-sized asteroid narrowly misses Earth in 2029, three spacecraft may be along for the ride.
• What would happen if we nuked an asteroid?
  2024-08-20
  Detonating a nuclear weapon on or near an asteroid is one of several options for defending the Earth from an impact. Here's what nuking an asteroid might actually do, and why it isn't always the best option.
• NASA discovers Mars rock with ancient potential for life
  2024-08-01
  A single 3.5 billion-year-old rock shows signs of all the conditions life needs to thrive.
• Does Jupiter protect Earth from asteroids and comets?
  2024-07-30
  Jupiter has often been thought to protect the inner Solar System from asteroids and comets, but new research has shown that the giant planet may actually increase the risk of an impact.

Space Daily

• Bright Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Becomes Visible in Evening Sky
  2024-10-10
  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2024 Starting October 11th, Northern Hemisphere observers will have the chance to see Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the evening sky for the first time in years. The comet will make its first evening appearance on Friday, visible low in the west during twilight. It will rise ...
• Near-Earth asteroid data offers insights into possible fifth force in the universe
  2024-10-10
  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 10, 2024 In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Beyond the immediate scientific value of the samples, data from OSIRIS-REx has opened the door to investigating new physics. A study published in *Communications Physics*, a Nature ...

The Space Review

• An alternative Mars Sample Return program
  2024-08-19
  NASA is weighing different approaches to its Mars Sample Return program to lower its costs and speed up the return of samples. Dale Skran advocates for an approach that ties the effort more closely to future human exploration of the Red Planet.
• Review: The Asteroid Hunter
  2024-05-06
  Last September NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, seven years after its launch. Jeff Foust reviews a book by the mission's principal investigator that describes the long effort to develop the mission and how it overcame obstacles along the way.
• NASA looks for an MSR lifeline
  2024-04-29
  Mars scientists hoped they would have a better idea of when and how they would get samples back from Mars after NASA completed an internal study of the Mars Sample Return program. Instead, as Jeff Foust reports, NASA is now turning to industry for help on how to reduce the ...
• MSR at serious risk
  2024-02-12
  Concerns about the budget and plans for NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) program came to a head last week when JPL laid off more than 500 employees, citing budget uncertainty about the program. Jeff Foust reports on the issues that have put the future of MSR into question for some.
• The case for a fleet of Martian helicopters
  2024-02-05
  Ingenuity, whose mission ended last month, was a first-of-its-kind Mars helicopter with no guarantees more will follow soon. Ari Allyn-Feuer discusses how sending a large number of similar helicopters could advance Martian exploration in novel ways.
• A capsule's fall marks the start of Asteroid Autumn
  2023-09-25
  On Sunday, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned to Earth, dropping off a capsule containing samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. Jeff Foust reports on the success of the first part of NASA's "Asteroid Autumn" that includes a launch and a flyby.
• Review: Interstellar
  2023-09-11
  Last month, a paper claimed to have found evidence for interstellar meteorites at the bottom of the Pacific, a claim other scientists have treated skeptically. Jeff Foust review a book by the scientist who is the lead author of that study and other efforts using science to look for interstellar ...
• It's not easy being a Martian
  2023-09-05
  The Fox reality TV series "Stars on Mars" wrapped up recently with one "celebronaut" crowned as winner. The series, Dwayne Day explains, also provided useful lessons for real missions to the Red Planet.
• For Mars Sample Return, more serious repercussions
  2023-07-17
  A Senate appropriations bill released last week would slash funding for NASA's Mars Sample Return program and threaten it with cancellation. Jeff Foust reports on the new fiscal challenges that efforts to return samples from Mars have encountered.

Phys.org

• Ryugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on Earth
  2024-10-08
  An international team of researchers with a wide range of backgrounds has found evidence of asteroids providing the compounds necessary for life to get its start on Earth. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes their study of a small sample of material collected from ...
• Investigating the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts
  2024-10-04
  A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, has found that it might be possible to produce food for space travelers by feeding bacteria asteroid material, resulting in the growth of an edible biomass.
• Detailed model suggests organic matter on Mars was formed from atmospheric formaldehyde
  2024-09-19
  Although Mars is currently a cold, dry planet, geological evidence suggests that liquid water existed there around 3 to 4 billion years ago. Where there is water, there is usually life. In their quest to answer the burning question about life on Mars, researchers at Tohoku University created a detailed ...
• Could comets have delivered the building blocks of life to ocean worlds like Europa, Enceladus and Titan?
  2024-09-09
  Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large asteroid. While these events were often destructive, sometimes to the point of triggering a mass extinction, they may have also played an important role in the emergence of life on Earth. This is ...

• New study eases concerns over possible 'doomsday' asteroid swarm
  2024-10-07
  Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.
• Primordial holes could be hiding in planets, asteroids and here on Earth
  2024-10-07
  Small primordial black holes (PBHs) are one of the hot topics in astronomy and cosmology today. These hypothetical black holes are believed to have formed soon after the Big Bang, resulting from pockets of subatomic matter so dense that they underwent gravitational collapse.
• Comet A3: How and when to see Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
  2024-09-30
  Stargazers will have the chance to spot what could be the most impressive comet of the year over the coming weeks.

• Fifteen years later, scientists locate a lunar impact site
  2024-10-09
  In 2009, NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft into the moon and used a small trailing spacecraft to observe the results: The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was designed to search for frozen lunar water and other volatiles in the lunar regolith by knocking them off the moon.
• Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet visible with naked eye this month
  2024-10-09
  Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. It should be visible through the end of October, clear skies permitting.
• Hera probe heads off to see aftermath of DART's asteroid impact
  2024-10-08
  The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an earlier probe knocked the mini-asteroid into a different orbital path around a bigger space rock.
• Ryugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on Earth
  2024-10-08
  An international team of researchers with a wide range of backgrounds has found evidence of asteroids providing the compounds necessary for life to get its start on Earth. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the group describes their study of a small sample of material collected from ...
• Curiosity rover provides new insights into how Mars became uninhabitable
  2024-10-07
  NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life—with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface—to a surface that is inhospitable to terrestrial life as we know it.
• Perseverance team revives SHERLOC instrument to help with Jezero crater discovery
  2024-10-07
  In January 2024, the SHERLOC instrument aboard NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover encountered a significant issue. A fault in the instrument's motor caused the dust cover and autofocus mechanism to become inoperative, putting the rover's SHERLOC Raman spectroscopy capability at risk.
• Hera spacecraft launched to examine asteroid collision site
  2024-10-07
  A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth. It's ...
• ESA's Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART probe two years ago
  2024-10-04
  The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will travel several hundred million kilometers to reach the double asteroid Didymos in autumn 2026.
• ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'
  2024-10-04
  Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defenses.

• Tsuchinshan-Atlas comet visible with naked eye this month
  2024-10-09
  Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. It should be visible through the end of October, clear skies permitting.
• Hera probe heads off to see aftermath of DART's asteroid impact
  2024-10-08
  The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an earlier probe knocked the mini-asteroid into a different orbital path around a bigger space rock.
• SpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission, but delays Europa Clipper because of Hurricane Milton
  2024-10-08
  SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its way to a pair of asteroids, but SpaceX and NASA have called off plans to launch the Falcon Heavy later this week on NASA's Europa Clipper mission ...
• Hera spacecraft launched to examine asteroid collision site
  2024-10-07
  A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock threatens Earth. It's ...
• FAA gives SpaceX the OK to launch just one Falcon 9 on asteroid mission for Europe
  2024-10-07
  The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday announced it was approving just one SpaceX Falcon 9 mission, although SpaceX has submitted its mishap report into why the second stage from last week's Crew-9 mission failed to hit its planned target on reentry.
• Weather may delay launch of mission to study deflected asteroid
  2024-10-07
  Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, SpaceX has said.
• ESA's Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART probe two years ago
  2024-10-04
  The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will travel several hundred million kilometers to reach the double asteroid Didymos in autumn 2026.
• ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'
  2024-10-04
  Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defenses.
• Investigating the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts
  2024-10-04
  A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, has found that it might be possible to produce food for space travelers by feeding bacteria asteroid material, resulting in the growth of an edible biomass.

SciTechDaily

• Mars Revealed: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers the Red Planet’s Shocking Climate Shift
  2024-10-09
  Curiosity’s exploration of Gale crater on Mars has uncovered new evidence about the planet’s climate evolution. By studying isotopic values in carbon-rich minerals, scientists have discovered that ancient Mars likely underwent extreme evaporation, creating carbonates under conditions that could only support brief instances of liquid water. Unveiling Mars’ Climate History ...
• Don’t Miss the Comet: Witness Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Before It Disappears for 80,000 Years
  2024-10-09
  In mid-October, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, recently discovered by astronomers from China and South Africa, will make its closest approach to Earth. This celestial traveler, originating from the distant Oort Cloud, will be best visible from the Southern Hemisphere, with potential views from the Northern Hemisphere as well. Surviving a perilous close ...

Science Daily

• New insights into how Mars became uninhabitable
  2024-10-07
  NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with evidence for widespread liquid water on the surface -- to a surface that is inhospitable to terrestrial life as we know it.

BBC Science

• Spacecraft launches towards asteroid knocked off course by Nasa
  2024-10-07
  The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.
• Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks
  2024-08-12
  Studies of quakes detected from the planet's surface found it in the planet's rocky outer crust.

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