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Europe makes moves to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029
The European Space Agency has taken the first big steps toward rendezvousing with the infamous asteroid Apophis during its ...
‘City-killer’ asteroid Apophis could hit Earth in 2029, European Space Agency prepares defense mission
Apophis is a peanut-shaped space rock spanning 1,230-foot (375 meters) across comparable to that of the Eiffel Tower. At this ...
Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
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Watch: Hera asteroid defense mission lifts off
ESA's Hera spacecraft designed to assess NASA's experiment to deflect an asteroid has launched from Cape Canaveral Space ...
Rocket blasts off into space to investigate asteroid crash site
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos in the first test of deflecting an asteroid ...
Inside Nasa’s plan to stop dinosaur-killing asteroids wiping out Earth by unleashing 1,000 spacecraft – or even a NUKE
NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...
SpaceX Launches ESA’s Hera Asteroid Mission
The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.
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Hera mission launched to observe effectiveness of DART mission
To study DART’s effectiveness, Hera is headed for Didymos to see whether DART is viable. The ESA says Hera is about the size ...
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Planetary defence mission heads for deflected asteroid
We should soon be practicing this again with our Ramses spacecraft, a proposed planetary defence mission to rendezvous with the Apophis ... asteroid is the smallest body yet visited by a space mission ...