13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... the Sun at that distance," said Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at JPL. "The high velocity indicates not only that the object likely originated from outside our solar system, but also that...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... into new patterns It is also now understood that near-Earth objects are fragments of former asteroids ejected toward the inner ...well as a sample return. The third mission, the Near Earth Asteroid Scout CubeSat is currently in development as part ...
29 June 2018
All things asteroid: Who, What, Where and When
... of an impact was predicted well ahead of the event itself,” said Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California about the boulder-sized asteroid designated...
04 June 2020
Mega constellations and their impact on astronomy
... each with a mirror 8.2 metres in diameter. Images of objects as faint as magnitude 30 have been imaged, this is some..., will be to locate and catalogue most of the larger near Earth objects and assess their potential to threaten life on our planet. ...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... because it was in their mutual interest to increase detection and characterisation of asteroids. NASA has a mandate to find Near-Earth Objects (NEO), and Planetary Resources is looking to learn more about asteroids that may be of material value. The...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... or outward, even to the point of ejecting them from the solar system. We now know that the population of near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that have migrated inward due to the gravitational influence of the planets...
