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NASA Isn't Telling Us Something About This Asteroid
NASA recently announced a new mission to study an asteroid that seems far more important than they’re letting on. The space agency has been careful with its wording, but the unusual level of secrecy ...
Asteroid Mining Startup Loses Its Spacecraft Somewhere Beyond the Moon
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
This asteroid might not hit Earth in 2032 after all—here’s how we know
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
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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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NASA tracking 'city-killer' asteroid expected to come near Earth in 2032
NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander Leroy Chiao discusses the latest track of the asteroid and how NASA is preparing.
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NASA: 1.6% chance newly discovered asteroid will impact Earth in 2032
The asteroid first was sighted on Dec. 27 after ... NASA, SpaceX set to launch space station mission to bring Starliner astronauts home March 14 (UPI) -- The NASA and SpaceX mission is on track ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
Asteroid probe snaps rare pics of Martian moon
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
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NASA reduces likelihood of asteroid impacting earth to 1.5%
NASA said the probability of the asteroid hitting the Moon is currently at 0.8%. NASA, SpaceX scrub mission to pick up International Space Station astronauts March 12 (UPI) -- NASA and SpaceX on ...
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 149 — SpaceX, Moon Missions, and Killer Asteroids?
On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the latest space news, including a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans to launch and land in the Bahamas, and the ...
The first private asteroid mission probe is probably lost in deep space
California startup AstroForge launched a spacecraft dubbed Odin on February 26, but the team lost communication with it ...
Time-Lapse Orbit Animation Of OSIRIS-APEX's Epic Journey To Asteroid Apophis
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...