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Japan has completed its 3-billion-mile mission to collect dust from an asteroid. Photos show the prize falling into Australia like a fireball.
The world now has its first asteroid samples. A Japanese spacecraft bombed asteroid Ryugu to collec…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth gets its first asteroid samples from 300 million kilometres away — and they could hold clues to the origins of life
Earth has known about the existence of asteroids since the 1800s, but it has taken humans more than…
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A Japanese spacecraft is about to send a 'treasure box' of asteroid dust plummeting to Earth. Watch the sample return live.
Hayabusa-2 is set to drop bits of asteroid rock down into the Australian outback on Saturday - the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch the Tesla Model S Plaid crush 2 of the world's quickest motorcycles in a drag race
The Tesla Model S Plaid beats any four-wheeled production vehicle. Edmunds wanted to see if a two-w…
Tim Levin
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NASA's asteroid-blasting spacecraft has stored over 2 pounds of alien dust and rock to bring back to Earth
Mission scientists raced to stash the asteroid sample because it was leaking into space. Now the pr…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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Earth got its water and organic matter from asteroids, finds Japan's space probe
Water and organic matter was brought to Earth by asteroids, finds Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe. T…
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Japan dropped a bomb on an asteroid in the name of science, as it tries to learn more about the history of the solar system
A copper plate on the bottom of the ball was expected to turn into a ball as it fell from the space…
Alexandra Ma
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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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Why Japan is landing hopping robots on an asteroid
The rovers have already achieved their first hop. Now, this may be the first time Japan has landed …
Nathaniel Lee,Jessica Orwig
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to suck up asteroid rubble for the first time. Watch the risky maneuver live.
The NASA probe will attempt an intergalactic high-five with asteroid Bennu and use a robotic arm to…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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Feel incredibly lonely as you stare at this photo of the Earth and moon drifting through space
Scientists think that asteroids may have carried the necessary ingredients for life to Earth long a…
Kelly Dickerson
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A NASA spacecraft just landed on an asteroid to suck up rocky dust to bring back to Earth. Here's how the mission works.
NASA's Osiris-Rex could find ingredients for life on an asteroid that might crash into Earth. But t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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12 Bollywood Stars Whose Luxe Cars Will Knock You Out
She’s surely turning heads with her performance. And she can proudly say the same about her wheels,…