05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
... smallest moons in the solar system, came from. Some scientists suggest that the lumpy, heavily-cratered asteroid-like objects were already floating out in space and were subsequently captured after the formation of Mars...
24 March 2020
Astronauts to offer inspiration during isolation
...-19. On Thursday, 26 March, ESA and long-time partner Asteroid Day will host #SpaceConnectsUs – a chance to connect across... @esa Twitter account and via @asteroidday. About Asteroid Day Asteroid Day is a UN-sanctioned global awareness campaign taking ...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
...Hera is the European contribution to an international double-spacecraft collaboration. After travelling to the Didymos pair of near-Earth asteroids two years ahead of Hera, ESA’s partner NASA, will first perform a kinetic impact on the smaller of the...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... some speculate that projects geared towards aiding a mission to Mars, such as the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a program to send astronauts to visit an asteroid by the 2020s and the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket Congress instructed...
19 June 2019
Two new Earth-like planets found around nearby star
... attention of astronomers in 2003, after its discoverer Bonnard J. Teegarden, found it in data collected via the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program. It has long been thought that many undiscovered dwarf stars exist within 20 light...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
.../beginning of June. Comet ATLAS was discovered on 28 December, 2019, by the system that gives it its name; the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) - a robotic astronomical survey stationed atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii. With...
