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NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNASA’s Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to...
Nasa's mission to 'metal asteroid' could reveal what's inside Earth
Yahoo News UK· 9 months agoNasa crews work on the Psyche spacecraft that will study a metal rich asteroid located between Mars...
UT scientist, author to speak in Oak Ridge on asteroid discoveries
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoExploring asteroids using an asteroid-orbiting NASA spacecraft will be the topic of a March 20...
Stargazing in November: The solar system’s behemoth
The Independent via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis month Jupiter is magnificent all night long, as the planet is at its closest this year. You can’t miss it, high in the south, outshining all the...
NASA launches spacecraft to explore metal-rich asteroid Psyche
Reuters via Yahoo News· 8 months ago(Reuters) -NASA on Friday launched a spacecraft from Florida on its way to Psyche, the largest of...
Nasa’s Psyche mission set to launch to ancient metal asteroid today: Live updates
The Independent via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNasa is about to set off to a distant, metal asteroid that could tell us how planets form. On...
NASA's Psyche spacecraft launches on first mission ever to a metal-rich asteroid
NBC News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space...
Astronomers spy new class of dark, water-rich asteroids like dwarf planet Ceres
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis image of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2015, approximates how the...
Planetary geoscientist: How two 'star-like points of light' became geological worlds
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHarry "Hap" McSween presented the Richard D. Smyser Community Lecture on asteroids in Oak Ridge....
A 'Parade of Planets' Is Coming. Here's How to Watch This Sky Show
Time via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoCredit - Photo illustration by TIME; Getty Images One of the solar system’s most fortuitous conga...