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NASA, asteroid and Lucy

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt.

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NASA spacecraft zooms by strange asteroid, beams back images

On April 20, the over 50-foot-wide Lucy spacecraft approached as close as some 600 miles from Donaldjohanson, which is aptly named for the discoverer of the famed Lucy hominid fossil, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson. The craft sped by at 30,000 mph, and used a specialized camera to capture a detailed view of the five-mile-wide asteroid.

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft captures images of peanut-shaped asteroid during 30,000 mph flyby

This asteroid is bigger than scientists anticipated, about 5 miles long and 2 miles wide at its widest point — resembling a deformed peanut.

Mars, NASA and Curiosity Rover

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Solves Ancient Mystery on Mars

“The discovery of abundant siderite in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important breakthrough in our understanding of the geologic and atmospheric evolution of Mars,” Benjamin Tutolo, associate professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, and lead author of the paper, said in a statement.

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NASA rover discovers out-of-place 'Skull' on Mars, and scientists are baffled

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has discovered unusual "float" rocks on the rim of Jezero Crater while searching for signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists are investigating their origin.

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A NASA rover just exposed something on Mars that eluded orbiters

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space.

NASA, SpaceX and ISS

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NASA, SpaceX launch 32nd resupply mission to International Space Station

NASA launched its latest cargo run to the International Space Station early Monday morning. At 4:15 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft took off while aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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'Beautiful launch': NASA, SpaceX send Dragon spacecraft with 6,700 pounds of cargo to ISS

SpaceX CRS-32 resupply mission launched at 4:15 a.m. EDT Monday from Kennedy Space Center under pristine weather conditions at Cape Canaveral.

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SpaceX launches its 32nd Dragon cargo mission to the ISS for NASA

SpaceX launched its 32nd cargo mission to the International Space Station today (April 21), sending more than 3 tons of supplies and scientific hardware to the orbiting lab for NASA.

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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

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Yes, there could have been life on Mars — new NASA discovery supports theory

Here’s the latest dirt on Mars. NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the so-called red planet for years, just unearthed something huge — a stash of carbon-rich carbonate minerals ...

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NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth

2025 HU isn't the only asteroid approaching the Earth today. NASA is also tracking an airplane-sized space rock known as 2025 GD1, which is estimated to be about 86 feet across and will zip past the ...

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NASA Confirms 70-Year-Old Astronaut Don Pettit Is Doing Well Despite Looking Frail After Landing

NASA’s oldest serving astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday following a 7-month mission on board the International Space ...

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NASA's Lucy probe flies by the asteroid Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This Sunday, Lucy was expected to fly past her second target ...

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Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

Trump's cuts to NASA budget could make failure an option for space agency

The Trump administration wants to significantly cut NASA’s budget next year, slashing science research funding in half, a ...

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WOW! NASA Removes LGBTQIA+ Content From Website Due to Trump's DEI Crackdown

NASA removes LGBTQIA+ content from its virtual home?! PinkNews said the space research giant has stripped its website of all ...

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