UAE will send spacecraft to visit Venus and land on an asteroid
6 October 2021
The United Arab Emirates is planning to land on an asteroid in 2033, after a quick visit to Venus
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The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
4 December 2020
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid Ryugu on 6 December before heading off to visit another asteroid
Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station
4 February 2019
Building a space station inside a rotating asteroid would make it easier to mine precious resources - but it might not happen for decades
First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
10 December 2018
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission arrived at Bennu on 3 December, and its first results show that the asteroid is chock-full of water and covered in huge boulders
NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu
1 December 2018
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
Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres
25 October 2017
NASA has extended the mission of the Dawn probe around the icy dwarf planet Ceres. It will dip toward Ceres's surface and study its tenuous atmosphere
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooms by Earth on its way to an asteroid
22 September 2017
On its way to collect dust samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’S OSIRIS-REx spaceship will slingshot around Earth, passing 17,000 kilometres above Antarctica
What vision of doom made Hawking seek a faster Earth exit plan?
10 May 2017
Stephen Hawking now says humanity must colonise other worlds within a century, rather than 1000 years, to ensure survival. Why the rush, asks Dirk Schulze-Makuch
