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Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission Get Official Names
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The IAU (International Astronomical Union), a global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20.
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Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense
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On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which was flying toward an asteroid more than 5 million…
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NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability
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The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a…
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