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Japan testing spacecraft technology to deflect asteroid on collision course with Earth
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJapan’s Jaxaspace agency is reportedly planning tests to repurpose its Hayabusa2 spacecraft to prove...
What would happen if the asteroid Ryugu hit Earth?
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn illustration of the asteroid Ryugu making a close approach to Earth Scientists have calculated what would happen if the asteroid Ryugu struck our...
UAE's ambitious asteroid mission will tour 7 space rocks
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoAn artist's illustration of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the main destination of the...
Japan's SLIM lunar lander stuck the landing—upside down
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 months agoEh. Close enough. Here’s the good news: Japan’s space agency confirmed its historic Smart Lander for...
Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJapan’s space agency said on Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's...
Japan's space programs and moon missions
Reuters via Yahoo News· 3 months agoBy Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it tries a precision landing on Friday....
8 asteroid discoveries that rocked our world in 2023
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThis year was one of the biggest ever for asteroid science, with NASA's triumphant return from asteroid Bennu, the grand reveal of organic molecules from...
Japan lunar landing: ‘Moon sniper’ mission reaches surface but appears to have failed, space agency...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 3 months agoJapan is in contact with its newly arrived Moon lander, but it appears to be having technical...
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test is the first planetary defense experiment ever attempted....
Contamination Prevention Is Key as NASA Preps for Incoming Asteroid Samples
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn October 2020, engineers landed a spacecraft on an asteroid 200 million miles (320 million km)...
