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'Potentially hazardous' pyramid-size asteroid will make its closest flyby of Earth for more than 100 years this Wednesday
The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Prepares for Historic Flyby of the Mysterious Asteroid Donaldjohanson
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is gearing up for an exciting flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. The mission, ...
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5 Space Missions to Watch in April 2025: Polar Orbits, Space Weather and NASA’s Lucy
TBD: ULA’s Vulcan launches U.S. space force missions. April could also see United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...
A Tiny Moon Photo Bombs Mars as Europe’s Hera Mission Swoops Past
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a ...
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Europe's Hera spacecraft aces self-driving test at Mars before asteroid mission
The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...
NASA Tracking Airplane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...
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James Webb telescope takes emergency look at 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 ahead of close encounter in 2032
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...
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SwRI-led modeling assesses age of upcoming asteroid flyby target
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...
Model suggests asteroid Donaldjohanson formed 150 million years ago
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...
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Hera asteroid mission – close flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos
On 12 March 2025, the Hera spacecraft used Mars's gravity to accelerate its journey to the Didymos/Dimorphos binary asteroid system. The probe's camera system, developed and built in Germany, captured ...
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Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Last year, astronomers detected the near-earth asteroid (NEA) 2024 YR4 ... This also presents opportunities for a close flyby mission to study YR4 up close, thus providing insight into the ...