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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 main asteroid belt.

The Associated Press on MSN · 5d

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest planet as it circles the sun. Lucy will visit eight of them from 2027 through 2033, some of them in pairs of two.

Space.com · 1d

NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of discovery."

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NASA probe set to uncover secrets of mysterious asteroid: 'We don't know what to expect'

NASA’s space-faring probe Lucy is set have a close encounter with an oddly shaped asteroid more than 100 million miles from ...

NASA snaps detailed photos of ‘strikingly complicated’ asteroid

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

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How NASA science data defends Earth from asteroids

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

MIT Technology Review7d

Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

BGR8d

A newly-discovered house-sized asteroid just zipped by Earth

if 2020 GH2 had been on a collision course with Earth there would have been very little we could have done to prepare. The good news, of course, is that the asteroid safely passed by our planet ...

NASA Reveals Measures to Monitor and Protect Earth from Giant Asteroid Impacts

The Earth is constantly at risk of collisions with celestial objects, including asteroids and comets, which are present in vast numbers in space. To mitigate these risks, NASA is actively engaged in ...

IFLScience4d

What Happened To The Planet That Earth "Ate"?

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...

4 Years To Go! ESA Shows How Asteroid Apophis Will Swing Past Earth In 2029

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

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Kryptonite To Change Life On The DC Earth In The Summer Of Superman

Kryptonite to change life on the DC Earth in the Summer Of Superman and Superman Unlimited, as announced at C2E2 today.

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