Tag: Asteroids

The Dark Asteroid Ryugu Finally Comes Into the Light

Hayabusa2 also provided the researchers with unique opportunities to observe the asteroid at multiple angles, including hard-to-get images taken at “opposition.” This involved maneuvering...

Comet makes a pit stop near Jupiter’s asteroids

After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets has found a temporary parking place...

The comet that killed the dinosaurs: New theory explains possible origin of the Chicxulub impactor

It was tens of miles wide and forever changed history when it crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. The Chicxulub impactor, as it's...

What Dust From Space Tells Us About Ourselves

Every year, roughly 10 particles of space dust land on each square meter of Earth’s surface. “That means that they are everywhere. They are...

Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteorites

Scientists from Japan and the USA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build...

How to Watch Hayabusa2 Return an Asteroid Sample to Earth

Early on Sunday morning, the skies above a secluded military complex in central Australia will be brightened by a fireball plummeting to Earth. It...

Asteroid’s scars tell stories of its past

By studying impact marks on the surface of asteroid Bennu -- the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission -- a team of researchers led by...

Asteroid Ryugu shaken by Hayabusa2’s impactor

Professor ARAKAWA Masahiko (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan) and members of the Hayabusa2 mission discovered more than 200 boulders ranging from 30cm...

Mmore complete view of massive asteroid Psyche: Researcher made first observations of asteroid at mid-ultraviolet wavelengths

A new study authored by Southwest Research Insti-tute planetary scientist Dr. Tracy Becker discusses several new views of the asteroid 16 Psyche, including the...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Touch an Asteroid

Once Bennu has its sample, it will return to an orbit around the asteroid so it can tag along while the rock makes its...

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