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In 2024 the Hera mission will revisit the asteroid punched by NASA

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the European Space Agency is sending the Hera mission to investigate the collision’s aftermath

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Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target

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Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actually two touching rocks

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Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actually two touching rocks

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Can we smash together all of the asteroids to build a new planet?

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Asteroid Dinkinesh and its smaller asteroid

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Lucy spacecraft found another asteroid behind the asteroid Dinkinesh

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NASA's Lucy mission is heading to two swarms of asteroids trapped in Jupiter's orbit

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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is hurtling towards the tiny asteroid Dinkinesh

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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula, forming the Chicxulub crater

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Chicxulub: The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction

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Osiris Rex sample

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Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingredients of life

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A meteor from the Draconid meteor shower

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How to see the Draconid meteor shower peak tonight

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How asteroids can help us understand our place in the cosmos

With the recent launch of the Psyche mission and the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu, asteroids are all the rage – but if they're just big rocks floating in the void, why do scientists care so much about them?

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Samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx

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OSIRIS-REx is about to fling samples of the asteroid Bennu at Earth

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NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal asteroid may reveal how Earth formed

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Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?

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