NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute’s MAss Spectrometer for Planetary EXploration (MASPEX) for technology development funding. Originally offered as part of the Primitive Material Explorer (PriME) mission proposal, the mass […]
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ESA remembers the night of the comet
Twenty-five years ago, ESA made its mark in deep space. A small spacecraft swept to within 600 km of Halley’s comet. The Giotto probe was nearly destroyed by the encounter […]
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Stardust Returns Pictures of Comet’s Man-made Crater
NASA’s Stardust spacecraft flew past comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14, snapping photos of the site where another probe crashed into the surface nearly six years ago.
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UKIRT Helps Find First Methane Dwarf Orbiting a Dying Star
An international team of astronomers using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and the Gemini Observatory on Mauna Kea have discovered a unique and exotic star system with a very […]
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Cosmic Curiosity Reveals Ghostly Glow of Dead Quasar
While sorting through hundreds of galaxy images as part of the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project two years ago, Dutch schoolteacher and volunteer astronomer Hanny van Arkel stumbled upon a […]
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Asteroid collision forensics
In the first half of February 2009, two asteroids collided in a region of space beyond the orbit of Mars, as scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System […]
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NASA’s LRO Exposes Moon’s Complex, Turbulent Youth
PASADENA, Calif. – The moon’s surface is more complex than previously thought and was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, according to three new […]
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University of Maryland Team Begins Imaging Comet Hartley 2 with Deep Impact Spacecraft
Some five years after its July 4th 2005 ‘comet shot’ was seen around the world, the Deep Impact spacecraft has begun regular imaging of a second comet target, Hartley 2. […]
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Roger-Maurice Bonnet, Executive Director, International Space Science Institute
Roger-Maurice Bonnet is ending his second and final four-year term as president of the Committee on Space Research (Cospar) on a high note. The 38th Cospar Assembly, held in July in Bremen, Germany, broke attendance records set in 2004 in Paris, attracting some 3,800 space scientists from around the world. Especially notable was the substantial Chinese and Indian presence, with the two nations just behind the United States in terms of submitted papers.
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European Planetary Science Congress, 19-24 Sept. 2010
The European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2010 will take place at the Angelicum Centre — Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Rome, Italy, from Sunday 19 September to Friday 24 […]
