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Michele Bannister

The inside story on 'Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

2 December 2019

In 2017, a mysterious asteroid from a different solar system passed near Earth. Astrophysicist Michele Bannister has the inside story on ’Oumuamua

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

18 June 2019

NASA has captured its closest and most detailed image yet of Bennu, a 78 billion-kilogram asteroid which approaches close to Earth every six years

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