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Universe, Discovered: Hera launches to asteroid crash scene
Stellar Stories Hera spacecraft launched The European Space Agency's Hxera spacecraft launched on October 7, initiating an ...
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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 ...
Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, ...
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Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact
Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...
Asteroid Apophis Will Endure Quakes and Surface Shifts During 2029 Earth Flyby
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
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'God of chaos' asteroid may be transformed by tremors and landslides during 2029 flyby of Earth, study finds
When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...
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 ...
NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed
That small streak of light represented the end of a NASA-led mission suffused with peril. Lauretta and his colleagues had spent nearly 20 years building a spacecraft designed to collect material from ...
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‘God of chaos’ asteroid predicted to tumble, shed rocks during Earth flyby
According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...
Could an asteroid wipe out life on Earth – and what are we doing about it?
Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...
NASA Warns A Bus-Sized Asteroid Will Skip Past Earth This Week
The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.
Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...