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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s moon Deimos

Mars appears light blue in this near-infrared image taken by the Hera spacecraft. Its moon Deimos is the dark mark…

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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought

A mosaic image of asteroid Bennu composed of images collected by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona The asteroid Bennu…

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Hope is all but lost for private Odin asteroid probe in deep space

The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. California…

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‘I think we all know that hope is fading.’ Private Odin asteroid probe is tumbling in space

The world’s first private spaceraft built to visit an asteroid is slowly tumbling in space and the outlook is dire.…

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NASA picks SpaceX rocket to launch asteroid threat hunter NEO Surveyor in 2027

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now.…

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The Latest on the Texas Measles Outbreak, Asteroid 2024 YR4 Risks and Fish Friends

Measles Outbreaks, Asteroid Risks and Fish Friends In this week’s news roundup, we cover activity from the black hole at…

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What if a giant asteroid had not wiped out the dinosaurs?

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years —…

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032

Astronomers have raced to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan The world’s space agencies…

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Chance of ‘city-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 smashing into Earth rises yet again to 3.1%, NASA reports

The probability that a major asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, will hit Earth in 2032 has…

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Asteroid 2024 YR4: Odds of collision with Earth in 2032 have reached new high

An artist’s impression of what asteroid 2024 YR4 could look like as it approaches Earth in December 2032 NASA NASA…

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