NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe to fire main engines in space for 1st time this week
An illustration shows the LUCY spacecraft as it heads back to Earth for a gravity assist in late 2024 (Image ...
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Tag: Asteroid
Take a look at the full asteroid Bennu sample in all its glory
Who doesn’t love showing off their collection of cool rocks? NASA was last week after struggling with it for a ...
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Asteroid Mining Startup Runs Into Trouble in First Mission
Since launching its first test mission to vaporize bits of an asteroid in space, AstroForge has struggled to keep a ...
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NASA Asteroid Probe Snaps First Image, Revealing a Field of Stars
It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, ...
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Asteroid Phaethon’s mysterious tail may finally have an explanation
News Science & Astronomy This illustration depicts asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun. The asteroid’s surface gets so hot ...
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Surprise! Asteroid ‘Dinky’ is actually a double space rock, NASA’s Lucy probe reveals (photo)
News Science & Astronomy NASA’s Lucy probe captured this image of the binary asteroid Dinkinesh during a flyby on Nov. ...
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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction
Earth The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust, which blocked out sunlight and ...
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Nearby asteroid may contain elements ‘beyond the periodic table’, new study suggests
A handful of asteroids in our solar system are so dense that no element on Earth can explain their properties. ...
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A Mission to the Asteroid Psyche Is Her Dream Journey
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is on a journey back in time, to unlock the secrets of the early solar system, and to ...
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NASA’s 1st asteroid sample is rich in carbon and water, OSIRIS-REx team finds
News Science & Astronomy A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can ...
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