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First CubeSat Selected for ESA's Ramses Mission to Asteroid Apophis
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 06, 2025 ESA's inaugural planetary defence mission, Hera, which launched in October 2024, is en route to the binary asteroid system Didymos. Accompanied by two CubeSats, Milani and Juventas, the mission is set to analyze the results of humanity's first asteroid deflection attempt. Building on this technological foundation, ESA's Ramses mission is accelerating its development by integrating components previously designed for Hera. h3>Hybrid CubeSat to Examine Apophis /h3> The Ramses mission's first ... read more |
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NASA Selects Scientists to Join Lucy Mission Studying Jupiter's Trojan AsteroidsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2025 NASA has chosen eight scientists to participate in its Lucy mission, an initiative aimed at studying the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These celestial bodies, considered remnants from the early solar sy ... more 
NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Takes Its 1st Images of Asteroid DonaldjohansonSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 NASA's Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the ... more 
Asteroid 2024 YR4 No Longer a Significant Impact ThreatParis, France (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Defence Office has significantly downgraded the risk posed by asteroid 2024 YR4, reducing its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 to a negligible 0.001 ... more 
Chance huge asteroid will hit Earth down to 0.001 percentParis (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 percent, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday. ... more |
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'City killer' asteroid now has 3.1% chance of hitting Earth: NASAWashington (AFP) Feb 18, 2025 An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday - making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern forecasting. ... more 
Want some salt with thatTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 18, 2025 Asteroids that pass close to Earth often raise concerns about potential collisions, but they also present valuable opportunities for scientific discovery. One such celestial body, the 900-meter-wide ... more
A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth -- how worried should we be?Washington (AFP) Feb 07, 2025 A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly as bright as the Sun. Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. ... more
Scientists analyze asteroid collision impact on climate and ecosystemsDaejeon, South Korea (SPX) Feb 06, 2025 A new study led by the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University, South Korea, explores the potential consequences of a medium-sized ... more 
A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth -- how worried should we be?Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2025 A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly as bright as the Sun. Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything for miles. ... more |
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Rochester's Kevin Righter kept NASA space rocks free from contamination
Rochester BY (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 Long before a NASA spacecraft carrying rocks it extracted from the surface of an asteroid millions of miles from Earth touched down in the Utah desert in September 2023, a team of scientists set about figuring out how to keep the rocks pristine for studying. Central to that team was Kevin Righter, a University of Rochester earth and environmental sciences professor who was the curation lead for the NASA mission known as OSIRIS-REx. "It was a lot of fun," Righter says of his role in the missi ... read more 
Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to lifeWashington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA's first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals al ... more |
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NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's IngredientsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer) spacecraft have reve ... more 
Life's building blocks in Bennu samplesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases - building blocks of DNA and RNA - in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies wi ... more 
ESA Monitoring Potential Threat from Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 The European Space Agency's (ESA) Planetary Defence Office is closely tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered near-Earth object that has a minimal chance of impacting Earth in December 2032. ... more 
Pristine asteroid samples reveal secrets of the ancient solar systemPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially tra ... more 
Berkeley Lab helps explore mysteries of Asteroid BennuBerkeley CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 During the past year, there's been an unusual set of samples at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab): material gathered from the 4.5-billion-year-old aster ... more |
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