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What's the smallest known asteroid? What about the largest?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoField of asteroids with space background and glowing orange shiny star. Asteroids constantly zoom...
What are potentially hazardous asteroids?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPotentially hazardous asteroids, or potentially hazardous objects, are large space rocks that orbit closely to Earth and could cause widespread damage to...
Sky Shorts: NASA's DART mission to test asteroid deflector impactor
The Repository via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBack on July 26, astronomers were surprised to discover an asteroid wider than 2 football fields...
Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA spacecraft with silver conical antenna dome and winged solar panels floats in space. NASA's...
NASA's Psyche metal asteroid mission launches this week: Here's what you need to know
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNASA's Psyche spacecraft is set to launch on Oct. 12, beginning its mission to investigate a giant...
Wow. Weird 'rock comet' 3200 Phaethon is way stranger than we thought!
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNew observations of asteroid 3200 Phaethon have upended years of assumptions about this already...
NASA's mission to metal asteroid may shed light on Earth's interior
United Press International via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory plans to send the Psyche spacecraft, illustrated above in a 2017...
Psyche: Everything you need to know about NASA's mission to a huge metallic asteroid
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoLaunched on Oct. 13, 2023, the NASA mission to visit the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche aims to find...
NASA shelves Janus asteroid mission after launch delay
Space via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAn artist's depiction of the twin Janus probes in space. NASA has put its Janus asteroid mission on...
This fall NASA is all about asteroids. What we could learn from these three missions
LA Times via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThis fall, NASA is all about asteroids. OSIRIS-REx's brought samples from Bennu; Psyche will visit a...