Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
But fear, Gialich emphasized, is an element of the job that he believes AstroForge should embrace as the company prepares to launch its robotic spacecraft, Odin, on an asteroid flyby mission that ...
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That killer asteroid probably isn’t going to hit us after all
Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended ... spot near-Earth objects (NEOs), and tests like NASA’s DART mission where a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into an asteroid ...
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Odin probe blasts off on SpaceX rocket to survey asteroid for possible mining mission
A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...