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2023 in review: ESA's JUICE mission to SpaceX's Starship launches, another landmark year for space
From ESA's JUICE mission and NASA's asteroid missions to SpaceX's attempts to launch the world's largest rocket, 2023 was another landmark for space.
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#TheMoment an asteroid was named after a CBC Science reporter
Nicole Mortillaro is an award-winning science reporter for CBC News. Last week she found out that the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after her.
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New Theory About Asteroid That Killed Dinosaurs
Most scientists agree that the impact of an asteroid hitting Earth played a major role in the extinction of dinosaurs but now there's a brand new theory about how exactly that happened.
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NASA sends spacecraft on 3.5 billion km trip
NASA launched a spacecraft on Friday that will travel to Psyche, a metal-rich asteroid scientists hope to study. It won't be a quick trip — the probe isn't expected to arrive at the massive asteroid until 2029.
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NASA launches mission to study metal-rich asteroid
A NASA mission to study an asteroid full of precious metals blasted off Friday. The Psyche mission — named for the asteroid it will study — will last six years and will provide data for future space mining.
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Scientist explains why Bennu asteroid samples are a big deal
Canadian professor Michelle Thompson was part of a small team of scientists who got first access to samples from the 4.5-billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. She explains to The National’s Ian Hanomansing how the research can help unlock a...
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NASA's Psyche mission: New spacecraft will visit a giant asteroid to tell us more about Earth
NASA's latest deep space mission will analyse a metal-rich asteroid to unlock a greater understanding of how rocky planets like our own were formed.
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NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after 7-year journey
The data gleaned by the space mission will likely help scientists with any asteroid-deflection efforts in the future.
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Asteroid Bennu samples return to Earth
A space capsule that grabbed rare fragments from the asteroid Bennu was successfully dropped back to Earth Sunday. Scientists think the asteroid could contain clues about how life on Earth formed.
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid tests explained
US scientists are going to start testing the largest rock samples ever collected from an asteroid’s surface.
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Nasa Returns First Asteroid Sample From Space to Earth
Nasa Returns First Asteroid Sample From Space to Earth
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Asteroid the Size of a Bridge Expected to Pass Earth
According to NASA, a "potentially dangerous" asteroid about the size of a bridge narrowly passed Earth on Monday.
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Atomos Developing Space Propulsion Vehicles to Reposition Satellites
Aerospace startup Atomos Space, which is developing a series of orbital transfer vehicles to help reposition satellites in space, recently closed on a $16 million financing round. CEO Vanessa Clark and COO William Kowalski joined Cheddar...
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NASA says DART spacecraft successfully alters asteroid’s path
Taking a page out of science fiction and Hollywood scripts, US space agency aims to prevent collision with Earth.
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NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid to test planetary defence
An unmanned NASA spacecraft deliberately smashed into an asteroid in an unprecedented test to prepare for the possibility of a planet-killing space rock. While this asteroid was not a threat, it was a test to see whether NASA could...
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NASA spacecraft collides with asteroid in planetary defence test
In world’s first attempt to change the direction of an asteroid, scientists hope the method can prevent collisions with
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DART: What you need to know about NASA's mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid
NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft is set to hit its target on Monday, in a test run for what to do if one ever threatened Earth.
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Satellite to crash into rock in outer space
Scientists around the world are awaiting the results of a crash in outer space.
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NASA launches ‘suicide’ spacecraft to kick asteroid off course
DART probe, the size of a car, will slam into the Dimorphos ‘moonlet’ at more than 24,000 kilometres per an hour in an attempt to knock it off course.
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Space mission launched to deflect asteroid
Nasa has launched a spacecraft it hopes will deflect an asteroid by smashing into it. The test could show how humans might stop asteroids that are a threat to Earth.
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NASA spacecraft en route to smash into asteroid
NASA has launched a spacecraft that will reach an asteroid in 10 months and smash into it — on purpose — to see if it's possible to change the space rock's orbit.
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NASA is launching the DART spacecraft to crash into an asteroid. Could it save us from armageddon?
NASA is launching a spacecraft the size of a golf cart to crash into an asteroid, which could tell us what to do if one ever did hit Earth.
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NASA spacecraft heads for clash with asteroid
NASA has launched a spacecraft it hopes will reach an asteroid and smash into it to try to redirect the giant rock's orbit.