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Watch live as a Nasa spacecraft returns to Earth with the largest asteroid sample in history on Sunday 24 September. After a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey across space, the ambitious NASA ...
The asteroid, called 2024 YR4, now has a 1.5% probability of hitting earth in 2032, according to NASA — and international agencies are feverishly working together to track the space rock and ...
Nasa launched a spacecraft bound to orbit the Psyche asteroid in a mission to improve our understanding of planetary cores and study the space rock's metallic structure. On Friday 13 October the ...
2024 YR 4 is an asteroid that is classified as an Apollo-type (Earth-crossing) near-Earth object, with an estimated diameter of 40 to 90 metres (130 to 300 ft).As of 22 February 2025, it has a rating of 1 on the Torino scale, with a 1-in-280 (0.36%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032, [7] and a rating of −1.11 on the Palermo scale, corresponding to an impact hazard 7.8% of the ...
On 3 December 2018, NASA confirmed that OSIRIS-REx had matched the speed and orbit of Bennu at a distance of about 19 km (12 mi), effectively reaching the asteroid. OSIRIS-REx performed closer passes of the Bennu surface, initially at about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) through December to further refine the shape and orbit of Bennu.
In June 2022 NASA found that the late delivery of the testing equipment and Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) flight software for the Psyche spacecraft did not give them enough time to complete the required testing, and decided to delay the launch, with future windows available in 2023 and 2024 to rendezvous with the asteroid in 2029 and ...
The spacecraft, roughly the size of a small van, is due to reach the asteroid in August 2029. The launch, shown live on NASA TV, marks the latest in a series of recent NASA missions seeking ...
Lucy was launched from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 16 October 2021, at 09:34 UTC [3] on the 401 variant of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle. It gained one gravity assist from Earth a year later on 16 October 2022, [12] and after making a flyby of the asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh in 2023, [13] gained another gravity assist from Earth in 2024. [14]