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Europe makes moves to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029
The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
Unlocking cosmic origins: Researchers trace 70% of meteorites to 3 asteroid families
An international team led by three researchers from the CNRS, the European Southern Observatory (ESO, Europe), and Charles ...
Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
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This Asteroid May Help Reveal a Fifth Fundamental Force in The Universe
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid: A Possible One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
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A Close Asteroid Encounter May Have Once Given Earth a Ring
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
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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 ...
Researchers Link Asteroid Ice to the Emergence of Life on Earth
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...