Asteroids can pose a threat to life on Earth, but they are also a valuable source of resources …
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On Feb. 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system by discovering …
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After traveling several billion miles toward the Sun, a wayward young comet-like object orbiting among the giant planets …
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A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a …
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Space
Asteroid Ryugu Dust Delivered to Earth; NASA Astrobiologists Prepare to Probe It
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesOn Dec. 6 local time (Dec. 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the …
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Captured on Oct. 20, 2020, during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows …
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Space
Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before: Close Encounter With Binary Asteroids
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesCU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at …
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At first sight, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope portrays the sparkling stars of AGC111977, a …
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Planetary defense researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) continue to validate their ability to accurately simulate how …
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Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s science team revealed …