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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby. NASA released the images on Monday, a day ...
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
also in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft discovered a mini moon around it. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s ...
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NASA spacecraft expected to have close encounter with asteroid
also in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft discovered a mini moon around it. — Marcia Dunn, AP Aerospace Writer The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the ...
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Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
altering its orbit around its larger companion asteroid. AP video journalist Mary Conlon contributed to this report. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard ...
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 ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of peanut-shaped asteroid during 30,000 mph flyby
This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.
An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking science.
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth
2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...