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All you need to know about NASA’s Lucy mission, the first spacecraft flying to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids
NASA is readying its Lucy mission that is scheduled to take off on October 16 next week. This will …
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An Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid is about to whiz by Earth. When it returns in 8 years, it could cross paths with our satellites.
On Friday night, the asteroid Apophis will pass by Earth. When it returns in 2029, its orbit may pu…
Aylin Woodward
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Asteroid Day — everything you need to know about the rocks in our solar system that could one day hit Earth
Asteroid Day is just around the corner and there are many questions that people have about asteroid…
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There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune — and even computers can’t predict where they are headed
Interstellar asteroids — asteroids from outside our solar system — may not be as rare as we once …
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The space rock that doomed the dinosaurs was shrapnel from a comet that flew too close to the sun, a Harvard study suggests
The origin of the space rock that killed the dinosaurs has been a mystery. A new study suggests it …
Aylin Woodward
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An asteroid that whizzed past Earth last week had its own Moon
Asteroids fly past Earth on a daily basis. More often than not, it’s more than one asteroid on any …
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NASA's only mission to the Asteroid Belt is about die an 'impotent' death after 11 years in space
"It will struggle for a short time, but it will be impotent," Marc Rayman, Dawn's mission manager a…
Dave Mosher
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Asteroid gets caught changing colours for the very first time
Asteroid’s aren’t supposed to leave two trails of dust behind them — and neither were they supposed…
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An asteroid only turns into a meteor if it falls to Earth
Space agencies keep an eye out for these objects have come to realise that the asteroids having …
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Elon Musk: 'If we can send a Roadster to the asteroid belt, we can probably solve Model 3 production'
At one point, Musk said the company would be producing 20,000 Model 3 vehicles per month by Decembe…
Mark Matousek
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A huge pyramid-like mountain exists in the asteroid belt and NASA can't explain it
Expect to hear about other surprises on Ceres in the coming years: The Dawn spacecraft is in such a…
Sarah Kramer,Dave Mosher
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A Japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid after blasting it with a bullet. The mission will bring back rock samples to Earth.
But Bennu has already made a significant finding: In December, before it entered orbit around Bennu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch the moon get pounded by 1 billion years' worth of big asteroids in a 1-minute animation
"The moon is like a time capsule, helping us understand the Earth," William Bottke, a space scienti…
Dave Mosher
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LIVE: Watch A Huge Asteroid Fly By Earth
"While it poses no threat to Earth for the foreseeable future, it's a relatively close approach by …
Jessica Orwig
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This space mission could save Earth from killer asteroids - but NASA keeps hitting the snooze button
Take the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), for example, which is one of Earth's best current …
Dave Mosher
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A giant asteroid flying past Earth on Halloween is the least of our nightmares
Right now NASA is preparing to send a spacecraft to an asteroid, and the agency hopes to eventually…
Kelly Dickerson
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Astronomers discovered unexpected activity on a giant asteroid that could point to something huge
"It is assumed that something comes out from [the] interior of the planet where there is a large am…
Jessica Orwig
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who just defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her - here's why
Jenifer Evans, an electrical engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, was one of the lead scientists on LINEAR …
Dave Mosher
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Incredible GIF Shows Early Earth Being Pummeled By Asteroids
Based on their models Earth could have been hit by up to four cosmic projectiles larger than 600 mi…
Leslie Baehr
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An asteroid strike on Pluto hints that a giant, habitable ocean might exist below its icy crust
"Nitrogen is a critical element for life as we know it and Pluto's putative ocean could be a source…