News About Asteroids And Comets

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2024 - A comet just discovered last year by observers will whizz past Earth from 44 million miles away but leave a trail of dust and gases visible to the naked eye, N...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_says_comet_expected_to_put_on_show_in_Earth_fly-by_999.html

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 17, 2024 - An international research team, including scientists from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory, and Charles University, has traced the origins of 70% of...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/The_origin_of_most_meteorites_traced_to_three_asteroid_families_999.html

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 13, 2024 - The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured images of the second-brightest comet to ever pass through its fi...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SOHO_Spies_Bright_Comet_Making_Debut_in_Evening_Sky_999.html

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2024 - Billions of years ago, Earth was a harsh environment, frequently bombarded by meteorites. One of the most significant impacts occurred 3.26 billion years ago,...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Meteorite_impact_shaped_early_Earth_and_promoted_life_999.html

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 18, 2024 - ESA has signed a euro 63 million contract with OHB Italia SpA to initiate preparatory work for its proposed Ramses mission, which aims to study the asteroid Ap...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/ESA_begins_preparations_for_Ramses_mission_to_study_Apophis_asteroid_999.html

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2024 - In early October 2024, instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) on three sun-orbiting observatories captured remarkable images of comet C/202...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NRL_captures_stunning_images_of_comet_Tsuchinshan_ATLAS_999.html

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 29, 2024 - The European Space Agency's Hera mission for planetary defense has confirmed the successful activation of its two CubeSat passengers, marking ESA's first use o...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Heras_CubeSats_Successfully_Signal_from_Deep_Space_999.html

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2024 - Researchers at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) recently participated in an international study of fragments from asteroid 162173 Ryugu, collected by a Japane...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Illuminating_ancient_origins_of_4BN_year_old_Asteroid_Ryugu_999.html

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 5, 2024 - The Taurid meteor shower will be visible in the night sky for the next week for the phenomenon's annual appearance. Earth passes through the debris left behin...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Taurid_meteor_shower_to_reach_peak_visibility_999.html

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2024 - NASA's NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission concluded as planned on Friday night when the spacecraft re-entered Earth's atm...

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NEOWISE_concludes_mission_with_re_entry_but_data_continues_to_fuel_discovery_999.html