/Asteroid

RIP, Little Robot

Pour One out for MASCOT, the Asteroid-Exploring Lander

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Here Are the First Photos Japan’s Robot Landers Sent Back From an Asteroid

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A Pair of Japanese Robots (Hopefully) Just Landed on an Asteroid

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The Government Has Plans for an Asteroid-Destroying Spacecraft

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We Just Found Out Asteroids Are Flying by Earth This Week — Here’s How Worried You Should Be

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Our First Interstellar Visitor Is Covered in a Layer Of “Organic Sunscreen”

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Large Near-Earth Asteroid Will Pass Earth by This September

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An Asteroid Headed Our Way Is About to Test NASA’s Planetary Defense System

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No, a Huge Asteroid Probably Won’t Wipe out Humanity

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NASA Is Fast-Tracking Plans to Explore a Metal Asteroid Worth $10,000 Quadrillion

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The White House Now Has a Plan for Handling an Asteroid Disaster

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NASA is Sending a Probe to Explore a “New Type of World”

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Newfound Comets to Help Ring in the New Year

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Here’s Our Response Plan for an Incoming Asteroid

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NASA’s Scout Space Monitoring System Gave 5 Days Warning of Passing Asteroid

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To Bennu and Back: NASA Just Launched the First-Ever Asteroid Return Mission

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NASA Just Confirmed That Earth Has A New “Mini-Moon”

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Massive Asteroid Hit Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago, Dwarfing One That Killed The Dinosaurs

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Asteroid Hunting: NASA Discovers 72 New Near-Earth Objects

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An Object Just Collided With Jupiter and Astronomers Caught it on Video