Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance
The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...
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Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission
AstroForce has received a commercial license for operating and communicating with a mission headed to a near-Earth asteroid, ...
Asteroid Apophis Will Endure Quakes and Surface Shifts During 2029 Earth Flyby
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
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Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' images from Europe's Hera asteroid probe
The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...
Asteroid Mining Is the Path to a ‘Shitload of Money,’ Astroforge CEO Says
AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...
Moon waves goodbye to Hera
As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defense departed its homeworld, it looked back to Earth to show the moon orbiting around ...
Bus-Size Asteroid Flew Closer Than The Moon - Watch The Orbit Animation
Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
Earth’s Temporary Second Moon 2024 PT5 Bids Farewell as It Exits Orbit
Earth’s newly captured mini-moon 2024 PT5 will depart in November, highlighting the fascination with transient asteroids.
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Earth's second moon, a mini-moon, will drift away in a few days and never return
On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.
Apophis: A new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that's set to brush by Earth
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...
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Europe Plans Close Encounter With Asteroid Apophis
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.
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Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' images from Europe's Hera asteroid probe
Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch — Hera probe snaps its 1st images of Earth and moon on way to asteroid crash site — SpaceX rocket launches Europe's ...