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UAE to land a probe on an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter in 2034
The United Arab Emirates just provided new details about its planned asteroid mission, which will visit seven different space rocks — and land on one of them.
NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe on course for 1st space rock flyby in November
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has altered its course ahead of visiting its first asteroid target in Nov. 2023 on its way to become the first probe to visit the Trojan asteroids that orbit Jupiter.
UAE's ambitious asteroid mission will tour 7 space rocks
The United Arab Emirates is targeting seven different space rocks with its ambitious mission to the main asteroid belt.
US updates asteroid-defense strategy
The U.S. government has published an updated action plan for how to deal with potentially dangerous asteroids.
NASA's LUCY mission snaps its asteroid targets for the 1st time
NASA's LUCY asteroid-hopping mission has for the first time spotted four of its asteroid targets which it will visit from 2027 onwards and send those images back to Earth.
NASA wants fleet of spacecraft to watch infamous Apophis asteroid approach Earth: report
The Apophis asteroid, recently cleared of imminent wrongdoing to Earth, already has one spacecraft visitor expected. NASA wants industry to send more.
NASA's asteroid-smashing DART mission revealed how battered space rock Dimorphos formed
Observations by NASA's DART spacecraft suggest that the asteroid Dimorphos formed from material flung into space by its spinning asteroid partner, Didymos.
Here's what we've learned from NASA's DART asteroid-slamming mission so far
NASA's DART mission, an attempt to discover if a spacecraft impact can shift an asteroid away from a collision course with Earth, has been described as a "smashing success."
