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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
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Do you remember asteroid 2024 YR4? It has changed course, and has a new target
YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth
2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...
NASA Tracking Building-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five ...
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The race to visit the asteroid making the closest pass by Earth
Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...
NASA spacecraft zooms by strange asteroid, beams back images
On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly ...
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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery." ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
Why meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes — a planetary scientist explains
A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...
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Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense
A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...
NASA’s Lucy shares striking close-up of Donaldjohanson asteroid
NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby around 139 million miles (223 million km) from Earth.