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United Arab Emirates and LASP Announce New Asteroid Belt Exploration Mission | CU Boulder today
Artist's representation of an asteroid belt. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech)
The United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAE) is embarking on a new space mission in collaboration with CU Boulder's Atmospheric and Space Physics Laboratory…
Astronomers find comet hidden in Solar System’s main asteroid belt
Using data from NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey, astronomers have detected a comet in the main asteroid belt, an unusual location for comets. Named asteroid (248370) 2005 QN137, the body of the solar…
UAE aims to launch probe into asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter in 2028 – TechCrunch
The United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAE) will send a probe into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with the goal of eventually landing on an asteroid in the early 2030s, in a mission that is sure to be a blow. major thumb…
Giant space rock in the asteroid belt presents an unsolvable puzzle: Vesta craters could shed light…
Asteroid Vesta has been identified as one of the largest asteroids in the cosmic wall floating between Jupiter and Mars, known as the asteroid belt. The discovery of the massive asteroid poses puzzling new…
Meet the 2 reddest asteroids in the asteroid belt
Artist's concept of transneptunian objects in the outer solar system. They are generally much redder than the asteroids in the main asteroid belt because they have more complex organic materials covering their surface. Could the 2 reddest…
The dinosaur-killer asteroid likely came from the outer asteroid belt
Where did the dinosaur killer asteroid come from?
It is a question of great scientific interest and fascinating to the public. We know that 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-sized asteroid crashed into Earth just off what is…
Bad astronomy: dinosaur-killer asteroid likely came from outer asteroid belt
Where did the dinosaur killer asteroid come from?
It is a question of great scientific interest and fascinating to the public. We know that 66 million years ago, a 10-kilometer-sized asteroid crashed into Earth just…
Two strange red rocks live in the asteroid belt, and they don’t belong to it
In the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it appears that two interplanetary visitors have made their home there.203 Pompeja and 269 Justitia are much redder than any other object we've seen lying around in the densely populated area.…
Scientists find out how the asteroid belt attacked dinosaurs
How do you track an asteroid that hit Earth over 60 million years ago? Using a combination of geology and computer simulations, at least according to a team of scientists from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). These methods may…
Mystery surrounds two red objects found in the asteroid belt
Chennai: Scientists led by Sunao Hasegawa of JAXA, the Japanese space agency, reported Monday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that two objects spotted in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter appear to have come from beyond…