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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu

The OSIRIS-REx mission is set to arrive at its destination, the asteroid Bennu, which gets dangerously close to Earth and may tell us about the early solar system

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The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout seen from Hayabusa 2

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Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live

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The rocky surface of asteroid Ryugu

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Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky

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MINERVA-II rovers

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A pair of tiny hopping rovers are about to land on an asteroid

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Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart

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Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart

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An artist's impression of Psyche

Earth

NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world

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Old rock

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Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth

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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at asteroid Ryugu

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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at asteroid Ryugu

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Interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid

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Interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid

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An artist's impression of Hayabusa 2

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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is gearing up to bomb an asteroid

A Japanese spacecraft is closing in on the tiny asteroid Ryugu, where it will drop off landers and explosively take samples of dust to analyse back on Earth

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NASA outlines its plans to deal with a large asteroid impact

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Two meteors in two days lit up the sky in China and Botswana

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Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming

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Weird backwards asteroid may be an interstellar interloper

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