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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

Dwarf planet could reveal origin of life

Elizabeth Howell

Illustration of an asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/buradaki)

The hard science of asteroid collisions

Illustration of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. (Courtesy of NASA)

Americans support asteroid defense funds

Robin George Andrews - Undark

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft sets off to collide with an asteroid in the world's first full-scale planetary defense test mission on Wednesday, Nov. 24, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Designing effective asteroid swatters

Theo Nicitopoulos - Undark

This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

New observatory to map the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

"Building blocks of life" in asteroid

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Earth as viewed from Mars surface, concept (Getty Images/Nzoka John)

Should we keep outer space "wild?"

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Oumuamua, interstellar object passing through the Solar System (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Humdrum comet or alien spacecraft?

A visualization of the Itokawa asteroid, which was visited by the Japanese Hayabusa1 mission. (JAXA/Curtin University)

These old asteroids are indestructible

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA craft grabs rocks from asteroid

This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid: 'Oumuamua. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Bizarre space rock is not alien-made

Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Why 'Oumuamua sped up as it flew by

Camille M. Carlisle - Sky & Telescope

The first color image of Ultima Thule, taken at a distance of 85,000 miles (137,000 kilometers) at 4:08 Universal Time on January 1, 2019, highlights its reddish surface. At left is an enhanced color image taken by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC), produced by combining the near infrared, red and blue channels. The center image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) has a higher spatial resolution than MVIC by approximately a factor of five. At right, the color has been overlaid onto the LORRI image to show the color uniformity of the Ultima and Thule lobes. Note the reduced red coloring at the neck of the object. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)

First photos of Ultima Thule arrive

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on Dec. 2 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles (24 km). (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

NASA pays a visit to asteroid Bennu

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Earth's asteroid warning system

Ryugu asteroid (JAXA and partner institutions via AP)

A robot arrives at an unexplored world

Artist's concept of a near-Earth object. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Asteroid detection woefully underfunded

Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

‘Oumuamua came from a binary: report

(Getty/puchan)

Asteroids most likely to hit Earth

Keith A. Spencer

Asteroid just misses Earth

Keith A. Spencer

(AP/Getty/Star Film Company/Photo Montage by Salon)

Trump's sinister plan for NASA

Keith A. Spencer

Artist’s impression of `Oumuamua (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Is Oumuamua of alien origin?

Diamond Planet (NASA)

Diamonds in the sky

Keith A. Spencer

Neil deGrasse Tyson (YouTube)

Tyson on the 1st trillionaire

Joanna Rothkopf

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