Nov 8, 2013 by News Staff

A group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a unique multi-tailed object, labeled P/2013 P5, in the main asteroid belt. P/2013...

Oct 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists led by Dr Franck Marchis from the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute teamed up with amateur astronomers to discover that the...

Oct 11, 2013 by News Staff

British and German astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory have detected the remains of an asteroid...

Sep 3, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of scientists reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an asteroid or comet that landed in...

Aug 30, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers from Canada and France have announced the discovery of the first Trojan asteroid known to share its orbit with Uranus. This image shows the...

Apr 5, 2013 by News Staff

An object that killed the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago may have been a comet, rather than an asteroid, say researchers Prof Jason Moore and Prof...

Mar 28, 2013 by News Staff

Chicxulub, an asteroid that collided with the Earth 66 million years ago and is believed to wipe out the dinosaurs, may have triggered a global firestorm...

Jan 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

New observations of the asteroid Apophis made with ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory as it approached our planet few days ago show the asteroid to be...

Mar 23, 2012 by James Freeman

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has returned new images of the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta, highlighting unusual geologic features, some of which...