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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
Asteroid Discovery Overturns Long-Held Belief
Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...
NASA’s Psyche Mission Suffers Strange Glitch on Its Way to a Metallic Asteroid
The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...
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A Geologic Map of the Asteroid Belt
Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.
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Asteroid Vesta is at its brightest this week. Here's how to find it in the night sky
On Friday, May 2 the asteroid Vesta will reach opposition, marking the ideal period to spot the second largest asteroid ...
Psyche spacecraft's sci-fi thrusters suffer glitch on way to metal-rich asteroid
There's an issue with the fuel line that feeds the Psyche asteroid probe's thrusters with xenon gas. But we needn't worry yet ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of peanut-shaped asteroid during 30,000 mph flyby
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a ...
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Provides Humanity’s First Picture of Peanut-Shaped Giant Asteroid – (LOOK)
The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...