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NASA's Lucy probe will fly by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday
The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the ...
Stars Insider on MSN2d
Meteorite and asteroid impact craters found on Earth
Right here on Earth are some outstanding examples of meteorite and asteroid impact craters and other visible impact ...
Calculating the odds of an asteroid hitting Earth in 2032
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'Planetary defense is knowing what's out there and what could do harm to us.' Meet the scientist who helped build NASA's asteroid response plan
Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
MIT Technology Review4d
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 ...
‘God Of Chaos’ Asteroid: It’s Exactly Four Years Until The Rarest Space Event Of Our Lives
On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...
Lucy spacecraft prepares for second asteroid encounter
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is six days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with ...
New Scientist3d
The race to visit the asteroid making the closest pass by Earth
Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...
Discover Magazine on MSN3d
Origins of Water on Earth May Not Have Started with an Asteroid Impact
The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Set for High-Stakes Asteroid Encounter on Sunday
The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...
Front Page Detectives on MSN2h
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Braces For Second Asteroid Encounter in Deep Space — But It's Only a ‘Dress Rehearsal'
As humanity ventures deeper into the mysteries of space, spacecraft like NASA’s Lucy are at the forefront, revamping distant ...