Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids
But this discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." If confirmed, this new ...
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From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch
Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022. DART, the Double ...
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Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system. Hera has a long journey ahead, but it took a moment to look back and ...
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Catastrophic Earth Impactors Are Highly Unlikely In Next 10,000 Years
It will rendezvous with the binary asteroid in early 2027. We need to measure the mass of Dimorphos to measure the efficiency of the DART impact to make sure the deflection test can be ...
9 Stunning images of Asteroids by NASA
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.
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It’s Not Sci-Fi: Americans Support Asteroid Defense Spending
In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...
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From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
Hera is part of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission, which plans to study the Didymos binary asteroid system. The mission will provide valuable data on asteroid deflection ...