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Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site
The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos on Oct. 7, meant to follow up on NASA's ...
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...
Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft captured farewell views of Earth and the moon as it sails away into space to investigate the asteroid ...
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Meet NEO Surveyor, NASA’s near-Earth asteroid detector
Meet NASA’s NEO Surveyor, the space telescope identifying hazardous asteroids and comets within 48 million kilometres of ...
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A Close Asteroid Encounter May Have Once Given Earth a Ring
An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...
Researchers Link Asteroid Ice to the Emergence of Life on Earth
Ice on ancient asteroids like Ryugu may have been crucial in kickstarting life on Earth. Researchers from Imperial and ...
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Mission To Deflected Asteroid Snaps Earth-Moon Photos In First Crucial Tests
DART carried a CubeSat, LICIACube, from the Italian Space Agency, which provided the first fleeting glimpse of the collision aftermath. Very important data that will be expanded by the arrival of Hera ...
A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ...
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Countdown to Apophis: ESA’s Ramses Mission Targets Asteroid’s Historic Earth Flyby
The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched its effort to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of the space ...
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Earth unlikely to be destroyed by doomsday asteroid swarms, study explains
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The end of the world won’t come from a swarm of deadly asteroid strikes, a new study explains.
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En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
Credit: ESA-Science Office The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell, Earth!" the European Space Agency posted online. "Last week, after we successfully ...