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Pieces of distant asteroid show ‘bombardment’ that happens to objects in space
The Independent US via AOL· 2 weeks agoPieces of a distant asteroid show the “bombardment” that objects in space undergo, according to the...
Probing the effects of interplanetary space on asteroid Ryugu
Phys.org· 2 weeks agoAnalyzing samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu by the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa2 ...
Asteroid Ryugu holds secrets of our solar system's past, present and future
Space via Yahoo News· 1 week agoSamples of asteroid Ryugu, collected by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, have revealed the impact solar...
This spacecraft is headed to NASA's asteroid-crash aftermath — but first, it'll stop by Mars
SPACE.com· 1 week agoScheduled to launch in October, Hera's main mission is to fly to the binary asteroid system called...
Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler
Space via Yahoo News· 1 week agoNASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target...
Laser on NASA's Psyche asteroid probe beams data from 140 million miles away
Space via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoNASA's DSOC experiment passed yet another milestone, interfacing with the Psyche spacecraft and...
Aiming for Apophis
SpaceNews· 15 hours agoApophis will miss the Earth. Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid about 350 meters across, will skim by the Earth on April 13, 2029, coming within 32,000 kilometers — closer than satellites in geostationary orbit.
'Lucy’s baby’ asteroid is only about 2 to 3 million years old
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoSelam is nicknamed “Lucy’s baby,” after NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered it orbiting another ...
Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge
AOL· 2 weeks agoA spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results ...
Watch 2 bus-size asteroids make close flybys of Earth this week (video)
SPACE.com· 3 days agoTwo bus-sized asteroids will zip past Earth closely but safely this week, starting with a...