When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch ...
The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. "The chance of talking with Odin is minimal, as at this point, the accuracy of its position is ...
On Thursday night, a Japanese spacecraft will try to fire a bullet at a giant rock in space. If it succeeds, it could help advance understanding of how our planet formed in the early solar system. M ...
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NASA says a lunar impact by this asteroid is unavoidable without action
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...
The air outside the mission control in Maryland was biting, the temperature barely hovering at 3°C, but inside, the tension was far colder -- measured not in degrees, but in sheer uncertainty. It was ...
On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...
The Ramses mission just got more complex, and more interesting. Once feared as a threat to Earth, the asteroid Apophis is now considered to pose a rare exploration opportunity — if space agencies can ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space ...
Mission team members are investigating how the anomaly may affect plans to study another asteroid. The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while ...
A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...
If you’re looking to the stars for a little respite from the doom and gloom, you might be looking in the wrong place. Chances are increasing that a large asteroid, dubbed YR4, will strike Earth in ...
On Sept. 21, 2018, the Japan Aerospace Agency (JAXA) spotted two robots landing on a C-type asteroid named Ryugu. According to JAXA’s report, they were deployed from their asteroid explorer Hayabusa2 ...
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