Asteroids
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After 2020, anyone would be forgiven for wanting to escape Earth, and Mars, the moon and the asteroid belt beckon
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A six-year mission will soon bring back a few grains of soil that could explain how water arrived on our planet
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Spacecraft ‘kissed the surface’ in brief landing on asteroid 200m miles away from Earth in US-first mission
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Nasa spacecraft makes final preparations to gather material from Bennu’s surface in October
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Lucy spacecraft has passed its system integration review and can now be assembled and tested
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Brief letters: Making chutney | Lockdown marmalade | Father Jack and Trump | Mathematical fright | Morse code clapping
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Scientists believe cigar-shaped visitor to our solar system is fragment of a larger body
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A new study showing the 70km-wide Yarrabubba crater dates impact to 2.29bn years ago
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Not since the 1960s have we witnessed such appetite for space missions. Here’s what to expect in the year ahead, from commercial launches to Chinese ambitions
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It’s feasible to flood space with flotillas of small satellites – but do we really want to?
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Isotope found in seabed sediment points to clash of solar bodies near Mars, study suggests
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Two target markers deployed around Ryugu ahead of lander’s planned descent next month
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Smashing of monster asteroid half a billion years ago thought to have caused mini ice age
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Asteroids and space debris could wreak untold devastation on the planet
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Space object about a mile wide believed to have crashed into Earth around 1.2bn years ago
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Proposal calls for wilderness protection as startup space miners look to the stars
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Spacecraft will shoot pellet at more than 650mph into Ryugu’s surface to kick up dust
Spacewatch European Space Agency awards Hera asteroid mission to German firm