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NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere
NASA's venerable asteroid-hunting spacecraft is no more. The NEOWISE spacecraft from NASA, which surveyed 3,000 near-Earth ...
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China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...
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Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' images from Europe's Hera asteroid probe
The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...
Bus-Sized Asteroid to Pass Between Earth and Moon Next Week
"Asteroids are "bits of a planet that didn't happen" that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter – the Main Asteroid Belt.
Apophis: A new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that's set to brush by Earth
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...
Asteroid DW Chances Of Impacting The Earth In 2046
Recently discovered asteroid 2023 DW has been predicted to have a close encounter with Earth on Feb. 14, 2046. See NASA's ...
How Dangerous Is the “Doomsday” Asteroid Swarm?
New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...
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Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Asteroid prospecting ...
OSIRIS-REx Returning Asteroid Bennu Samples To Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...