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An asteroid will make a close flyby of Earth, and scientists are excited
Quartz· 15 hours agoIn about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close...
NASA’s Optical Comms Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles
NASA· 1 day agoRiding aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, the agency’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology...
Hera asteroid mission's side-trip to Mars
Phys.org· 15 hours agoESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary ...
Scientists have predicted the exact date asteroid is in danger of hitting Earth with force of 22...
UNILAD· 23 hours agoYou may want to mark your calendars as scientists have predicted an exact date you should keep in...
New spacecraft 'jumps around' on asteroids
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSpaceHopper is designed specifically to explore relatively small celestial bodies such as asteroids and moons, where there is little to no gravity....
Asteroid being captured by NASA worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 would make everyone on Earth a...
UNILAD· 1 week agoWhile the mission may have set off many months ago now, people remain intrigued by one particular...
NASA shared timeline for when $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroid will be brought to Earth
UNILAD· 1 week ago"Teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is...
NASA HQ picked their best photos of the year. Here are our 13 favorites.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNASA’s Psyche spacecraft will travel to a metal-rich asteroid by the same name orbiting the Sun...
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
CNN via AOL· 3 days agoWith minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and...
This little robot can hop in zero-gravity to explore asteroids
Space via Yahoo News· 2 weeks ago"[Asteroids] are thought to contain valuable mineral resources that could be of use to humankind in...