Asteroid, Comet, Meteor News

• Saturn
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  Titan's Methane: Going, Going, Soon to Be Gone?

  April 15, 2013 — By tracking a part of the surface of Saturn's moon Titan over several years, NASA's Cassini mission has found a remarkable longevity to the hydrocarbon lakes on the moon's ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
  Solar System
   
  

  NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

  April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
   
  

  Update: Comet to Make Close Flyby of Red Planet in October 2014

  April 15, 2013 — New observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) have allowed NASA's Near-Earth Object Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. to further refine the comet's ... > full story
• Earth Science
  Environmental Issues
  Water
  Weather
  Geochemistry
  Geology
   
  

  New Technique Measures Evaporation Globally

  April 11, 2013 — Researchers have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation ... > full story
• Space Station
  NASA
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
   
  

  NASA's Asteroid Initiative: Robotically Capture Small Near-Earth Asteroid and Explore It

  April 11, 2013 — NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and ... > full story
• Stars
  Extrasolar Planets
  Astronomy
  Kuiper Belt
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar Flare
   
  

  Retired Star Found With Planets and Debris Disc

  April 9, 2013 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has provided the first images of a dust belt -- produced by colliding comets or asteroids -- orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary ... > full story
• NASA
  Space Exploration
  Space Station
  Space Missions
  Astronomy
  Extrasolar Planets
   

  NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for Formulation

  April 8, 2013 — NASA's Astrophysics Explorer Program has selected two missions for launch in 2017: a planet-hunting satellite and an International Space Station instrument to observe X-rays from ... > full story
• Stars
  Extrasolar Planets
  Galaxies
  Kuiper Belt
  Pluto
  Astronomy
   
  

  Dead Star Warps Light of Companion Red Star, Astronomers Say

  April 5, 2013 — Astronomers have observed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion red star. The findings are among the first detections of this effect -- a result predicted by Einstein's theory ... > full story
• Origin of Life
  Cell Biology
  Molecular Biology
  Fossils
  Extreme Survival
  Genetics
   
  

  How Life May Have First Emerged on Earth: Foldable Proteins in a High-Salt Environment

  April 5, 2013 — Scientists may be a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago. Researchers have produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on ... > full story
• Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Dinosaurs
  Extinction
  Early Climate
  Geology
  Nature
   
  

  A Comet, Not an Asteroid, May Have Killed the Dinosaurs, Experts Propose

  April 4, 2013 — In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appear ... > full story

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