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NASA gives status update on mission to capture asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000
UNILAD· 5 days agoNASA has given an update on its mission to capture an asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion. Last year,...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unlocks asteroid Dinkinesh’s dynamic history
KFGO· 7 days agoBy Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little asteroid called Dinkinesh - visited last November by ...
'Dinky' asteroid imaged by NASA has ultra-rare double moon, study confirms
Live Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoResearchers have proposed a model for how a double moon named Selam formed around the tiny asteroid...
Bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, NASA says
Staten Island Advance· 5 days agoA 25-foot-long, bus-sized asteroid will fly close to Earth on Saturday, according to NASA. An asteroid is an inactive ...
NASA Lucy Images Reveal Asteroid Dinkinesh to be Surprisingly Complex - NASA
NASA· 7 days agoImages from the November 2023 flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft show a trough on...
Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
Live Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoPotentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into...
Asteroid’s double moon points to a complex history
EarthSky· 1 day agoA new study of asteroid Dinkinesh and its moon Selam, led by researchers at Southwest Research Institute, shows a complex geological history for both...
NASA’s DART mission punched the Didymos asteroid in 2022 — now it’s time to go back
The Verge· 6 days agoThe European Space Agency (ESA) is running some of the final tests required to launch its Hera...
Hubble goes to single-gyro operating mode as NASA passes on private servicing mission
SpaceNews· 12 hours agoNASA will extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope by switching to a mode where the spacecraft...
Chile to install world’s largest astronomy camera on the edge of Atacama desert
WSAU Wausau· 40 minutes agoSANTIAGO (Reuters) - With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital camera ...