NASA Pauses Psyche, a Mission to a Metal-Rich Asteroid
Computer software delays pushed back the launch of a NASA spacecraft to explore what appears to be a metal asteroid…
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Hayabusa2
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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Ryugu
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Asteroid Samples May ‘Rewrite the Chemistry of the Solar System’
The results were “very important,” said Victoria Hamilton, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was…
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France
Mercury (Planet)
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Shards of the Planet Mercury May Be Hiding on Earth
Mercury does not make sense. It is a bizarre hunk of rock with a composition that is unlike its neighboring…
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Greenland
Iceland
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks
Movies that imagine an asteroid or comet catastrophically colliding with Earth always feature a key scene: a solitary astronomer spots…
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The First Quadruple Asteroid: Astronomers Spot a Space Rock With 3 Moons
We already knew the asteroid 130 Elektra was special. Astronomers previously discovered it had two moons, making it a rare…
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Earth
Gravitation and Gravity
Nature Communications (Journal)
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Astronomers Find a New Asteroid Sharing Earth’s Orbit
Earth also appeared to lack Trojan asteroids until astronomers found one in 2010 at the L4 Lagrange point, 60 degrees…
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Meteor Showers That Will Peak in Night Skies in 2022
On any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance you’ll see a beautiful streak shoot across the…