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The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a metal-rich asteroid by the same name. Well into its voyage, the ...
The new image, which shows Earth along with an even smaller point of light coming from the moon, harkens back to Carl Sagan's ...
The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...
Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The space rock will make its closest approach—at a cosmically slight 183,000 miles from our planet—later today, according to ...
The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...