Asteroids and Comets News


Mission Press Releases

  • Leading Planetary Defence Experts announce 21,443 reasons to test asteroid deflection
    Asteroid Day - Wednesday, November 6, 2019
    Posted on: 11/6/2019 9:09:55 PM PDT

  • Near-Earth Asteroids Spectroscopic Survey at Isaac Newton Telescope
    Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes - Thursday, October 17, 2019
    Posted on: 10/17/2019 4:58:30 PM PDT

  • Season Two of 'On a Mission' Podcast Targets Asteroids
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Tuesday, October 8, 2019
    Posted on: 10/8/2019 10:06:46 PM PDT

  • Scientist Helps Discover How Water Is Regenerated on Asteroids
    Curtin University - Tuesday, October 8, 2019
    Posted on: 10/8/2019 3:23:47 PM PDT

  • Characterizing Near-Earth Objects to Understand Impact Risks, Exploration Potential
    Southwest Research Institute - Tuesday, October 1, 2019
    Posted on: 10/1/2019 5:05:25 PM PDT

  • Get Ready for More Interstellar Objects, Astronomers Say
    Yale University - Saturday, September 28, 2019
    Posted on: 9/28/2019 3:44:25 PM PDT

  • Naming of New Interstellar Visitor, 2I/Borisov
    International Astronomical Union - Tuesday, September 24, 2019
    Posted on: 9/24/2019 2:07:18 PM PDT

  • Comet Gateway Discovered to Inner Solar System, May Alter Fundamental Understanding of Comet Evolution
    University of Central Florida - Thursday, September 19, 2019
    Posted on: 9/19/2019 10:15:10 PM PDT

  • Best of both worlds: Asteroids and massive mergers
    University of Arizona - Monday, August 19, 2019
    Posted on: 8/19/2019 10:37:44 PM PDT

  • 'Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft
    National Science Foundation - Saturday, July 20, 2019
    Posted on: 7/20/2019 7:28:00 PM PDT

  • Asteroid Day To Celebrate Fifth Anniversary with Thousands of Events Planned Worldwide to Raise Awareness about Asteroids, 27-30 June 2019
    Asteroid Day - Friday, June 21, 2019
    Posted on: 6/21/2019 7:40:31 PM PDT

  • Space Mission to Chase Comet Will Be Led by UK Scientists
    UK Space Agency - Thursday, June 20, 2019
    Posted on: 6/20/2019 4:07:22 PM PDT

  • Scientists Planning Now for Asteroid Flyby a Decade Away
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Monday, April 29, 2019
    Posted on: 4/29/2019 9:19:09 PM PDT

  • NASA Invites Media to Learn More About Near-Earth Asteroids, Comets
    NASA HQ - Thursday, April 25, 2019
    Posted on: 4/25/2019 11:43:29 PM PDT

  • NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise
    NASA HQ - Wednesday, April 24, 2019
    Posted on: 4/24/2019 8:33:07 PM PDT

  • SwRI to conduct largest-ever Hubble survey of the Kuiper Belt
    Southwest Research Institute - Tuesday, April 2, 2019
    Posted on: 4/2/2019 5:59:13 PM PDT

  • OSIRIS-REx Spies on the Weird, Wild Gravity of an Asteroid
    University of Colorado at Boulder - Friday, March 22, 2019
    Posted on: 3/22/2019 10:37:16 PM PDT

  • OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Studies Asteroid Bennu Up Close
    University of Arizona - Friday, March 22, 2019
    Posted on: 3/22/2019 10:36:10 PM PDT

  • Curtin University Crater Hunters Score Meteoric Hole-in-One
    Curtin University - Tuesday, March 5, 2019
    Posted on: 3/5/2019 3:57:37 PM PDT

  • World’s best telescopes target asteroids for ESA’s Hera mission
    European Space Agency - Tuesday, March 5, 2019
    Posted on: 3/5/2019 3:55:30 PM PDT

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  • Identification of a Minimoon Fireball
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - December 5, 2019
    Posted on: 12/5/2019 9:17:43 PM PDT

  • (704) Interamnia: A transitional object between a dwarf planet and a typical irregular-shaped minor body
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - December 3, 2019
    Posted on: 12/3/2019 3:48:55 PM PDT

  • Meteoroid Stream Formation Due to the Extraction of Space Resources from Asteroids
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - December 3, 2019
    Posted on: 12/3/2019 3:46:47 PM PDT

  • The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - November 7, 2019
    Posted on: 11/7/2019 3:50:18 PM PDT

  • First stars that could significantly perturb comet motion are finally found
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - November 6, 2019
    Posted on: 11/6/2019 2:39:58 PM PDT

  • Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - November 1, 2019
    Posted on: 11/1/2019 3:59:55 PM PDT

  • Are 2I/Borisov and Oort Cloud Comets Alike?
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 21, 2019
    Posted on: 10/21/2019 5:54:25 PM PDT

  • Investigating Asteroid Surface Geophysics with an Ultra-Low-Gravity Centrifuge in Low-Earth Orbit
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 11, 2019
    Posted on: 10/11/2019 5:04:35 PM PDT

  • Development and Testing of an Engineering Model for an Asteroid Hopping Robot
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 10, 2019
    Posted on: 10/10/2019 3:25:48 PM PDT

  • Report: Finding Hazardous Asteroids Using Infrared and Visible Wavelength Telescopes
    National Academy of Sciences - October 10, 2019
    Posted on: 10/10/2019 3:20:23 PM PDT

  • Scientists Confirm New Discovery of Moon Rocks on Earth
    Johnson Space Center - September 27, 2019
    Posted on: 9/27/2019 4:01:08 PM PDT

  • Sending a Spacecraft to Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 16, 2019
    Posted on: 9/16/2019 11:30:03 PM PDT

  • Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 13, 2019
    Posted on: 9/13/2019 11:03:13 PM PDT

  • A Real-Time Search for Interstellar Impacts on the Moon
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 26, 2019
    Posted on: 8/26/2019 1:50:42 PM PDT

  • GAUSS -- A Sample Return Mission to Ceres
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 21, 2019
    Posted on: 8/22/2019 12:18:37 AM PDT

  • Comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto): dislodged from the Oort Cloud or coming from interstellar space?
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 8, 2019
    Posted on: 8/8/2019 3:29:57 PM PDT

  • Cometary Plasma Science -- A White Paper in response to the Voyage 2050 Call by the European Space Agency
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - August 2, 2019
    Posted on: 8/2/2019 7:29:37 PM PDT

  • Enhanced Kinetic Impactor for Deflecting Large-scale Potentially Hazardous Asteroids via Maneuvering Space Rocks
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 26, 2019
    Posted on: 7/26/2019 2:27:12 PM PDT

  • Q-type asteroids: Possibility of non-fresh weathered surfaces
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 22, 2019
    Posted on: 7/22/2019 12:41:54 PM PDT

  • The Natural History of 'Oumuamua
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 4, 2019
    Posted on: 7/4/2019 8:26:18 PM PDT

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