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Hera mission set to revisit asteroid

Hera mission headed to asteroid as part of planetary defense test to launch Monday

That was the question, and it worked. Now the European Space Agency, together with the NASA and SpaceX, is sending another spacecraft back to conduct more tests on the nudged asteroid. At 10:52 a.

New Scientist on MSN · 2d

Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by NASA’s DART mission in 2022

Phys.org · 2d

ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defenses.

The Next Web · 2d

ESA’s ‘planetary defence mission’ has startups dreaming of asteroid mining

The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.

Amaze Lab on MSN · 2d

ESA Set to Launch Hera Mission, the First Planetary Defense Endeavor of Its Kind

Space is a pretty wild place with asteroids, rogue planets and possibly even aliens species being a threat to humanity. Now a new mission by the ESA is about to launch, heading into space to inspect the Dimorphos and Didymos asteroid pair to better understand how we might redirect it if it was coming our way.

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USA TODAY on MSN · 6d

An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.'

Yahoo · 12d

An asteroid will soon enter Earth's orbit as a temporary 'mini-moon'

A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity.

CNET on MSN · 1d

Earth's Mini-Moon: Everything You Need to Know About Our Temporary Second 'Moon'

It's an asteroid named 2024 PT5, which entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be caught there until Nov. 25, before flying away back into the solar system. Scientists call such phenomena mini-moons.

3don MSN

Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

Live Science10d

Nuking an asteroid could save Earth from destruction, researchers show in 1st-of-its-kind X-ray experiment

A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...

4don MSN

Earth's new mini-moon belongs to a group of promising targets for future asteroid miners trying to send humans on deep-space missions

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

Radar Catches Oddly Shaped Stadium-Sized Asteroid Zooming Past Earth

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

Phys.org11d

Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, lab experiment suggests

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

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Nukes (Yes, Nukes) Could Save Earth from an Asteroid

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

Yahoo3d

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A second, smaller space rock smashed into the sea off the coast of West ...

Space.com5h

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera asteroid probe on Oct. 7: Watch it live

SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation on Monday (Oct. 7), and you can watch the liftoff live.

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