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Meet NEO Surveyor, NASA’s near-Earth asteroid detector
Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of ...
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Earth survived an asteroid impact in 1908 that most people don’t know about
On June 30 1908, a significant asteroid impact event in the Tunguska area of Siberia wiped out 80 million trees across 830 ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
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NASA asteroid warning as stadium-sized rock heads towards Earth
"An object larger than about 150 meters that can approach the Earth to within this distance is termed a potentially hazardous ...
A Year With Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Reveals Intriguing Clues to Origin of Life on Earth
A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...
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Spacecraft Dispatched to Asteroid That NASA Slammed in Previous Save-the-Earth Test
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has embarked on a two-year mission to study a small asteroid previously impacted ...
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The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test ... or anything that’s sort of dramatic, Earth-shifting stuff that makes you feel small—stuff that really kind of affects us in a ...
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Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet ...
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Spacecraft headed to harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in previous save-the-Earth test
Neither asteroid poses any threat to Earth — before or after Dart showed up. That's why NASA picked the pair for humanity's first asteroid-deflecting demo. Leftovers from the solar system's ...
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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's DART (Double Asteroid ...