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Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Astronomers have used new and archival datasets from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. The vapor is present due to the thermal excitation of water molecules...
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Japan's asteroid-smashing probe reveals a surprisingly young space rock
Launched in late 2012, Japan’s spacecraft Hayabusa2 was sent to investigate asteroid Ryugu by lobbing a copper shell into the space rock. Japan’s space agency JAXA published the probe’s findings in the journal Science on March 19.
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Hubble Tracks Origins Of Energy Blasts
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extraordinary events that generate as much energy in a thousandth of a second as the Sun does in an entire year! Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have traced the locations of five brief,...
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NASA says ‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid 7482 passing by Earth on January 18
An asteroid more than twice the size of the Empire State Building will come within 1.98 million kilometers of the Earth on January 18, according to NASA.
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What has Hubble seen in our Solar System? | Hubble Space Images Episode 9
Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar system. So what has it seen? Images from Hubble / NASA / ESA.
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Searching for Earth’s Trojan Asteroids
Trojan asteroids are common at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of other planets, leading or following the planet in its orbit. But detecting our own Trojan asteroids from Earth is difficult since they appear close to the sun from our...
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OSIRIS-REx Observes a Black Hole
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30,000 light-years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer...
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Investigating Asteroids with Lucy's Scientific Instruments
This video highlights the suite of instruments aboard the Lucy spacecraft that will be used to collect data on the Trojan asteroids. Since Lucy will be the first space mission to explore the Trojans, the information gathered will provide...
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Asteroid Bennu: Selecting Site Nightingale
OSIRIS-REx is a NASA mission to explore near-Earth asteroid Bennu and return a sample to Earth. Prior to arriving at Bennu, mission planners had expected the asteroid's surface to consist largely of fine-grained material, like a sandy...
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On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 1 - The Sky Is Falling
Earth is in a cosmic shooting gallery. With so many asteroids zipping around, how can we find them all before they find us?
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On a Mission: Season Two, Episode 0 - Asteroids!
The upcoming season will feature stories of asteroid exploration.
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NASA's Psyche Mission to an Asteroid: Official NASA Trailer
Join the journey as NASA’s Psyche mission team launches in 2022 to explore a unique metallic asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid, likely made largely of nickel-iron metal mixed with rock, could contain metal...
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NASA says a large asteroid will fly by Earth on Feb. 15
NASA warned that asteroid 2002 PZ39 will approach Earth on Saturday.
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Skull-shaped asteroid to pass by Earth after Halloween
Earth will be having another spooky encounter with a "death comet" that first swung by our planet three Halloweens ago.
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Tour of Asteroid Bennu
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is made of loose material weakly clumped together by...
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Arriving at Asteroid Bennu
Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of the solar system, remnants from the dawn of planet formation that may have delivered organics and water to early Earth, and which could hold clues to the origins of life. Now, a NASA mission...
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Imaging Asteroid Bennu
OSIRIS-REx has imaged Bennu in higher resolution than we have Earth and our own Moon. Since its arrival at the asteroid on Dec. 3, 2018, the spacecraft has discovered boulders the size of buildings, and imaged the surface down to 5...
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NASA spacecraft ready to grab sample from spinning asteroid
On 20 October OSIRIS REx will briefly touch asteroid Bennu and blow gas into its soil to dislodge dust and rock
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Speedy, 500-meter-wide asteroid to pass near Earth on Nov. 29
A half-kilometer-wide asteroid will zoom past Earth on Nov. 29, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The surprising secret behind Earth’s strange companion
New telescopes revealed a big clue about the origins of a huge asteroid that’s been dancing around Earth for centuries as it orbits the sun.
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OSIRIS-REx Tech: Mapping an Asteroid with Lasers
The OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) will provide a three-dimensional map of asteroid Bennu’s shape, which will allow scientists to understand the context of the asteroid’s geography and the sample location. OLA is provided by the...
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Hubble Science: Exoplanets, Alien Atmospheres
For the past 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope has continued its important mission of uncovering the mysteries of the universe. One of those mysteries that Hubble has helped us understand are exoplanets. Video credit: NASA's Goddard...
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‘Potentially Hazardous’ asteroid 2017 XC62 passing by Earth January 24, according to NASA
An asteroid the size of the Washington Monument will come around 7.2 million kilometers from Earth on January 24, according to NASA.
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Where the giant dinosaur-killing asteroid came from
About 66 million years ago, an object estimated to be 6 miles wide (that’s almost 10 kilometers wide) slammed into the Earth. Now, scientists think they know where that object came from.