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NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world
The unique metal asteroid Psyche may be a space miner's fantasy – but there are better reasons to want to visit it, says mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
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Asteroid strike may have forged the oldest rocks ever found on Earth
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Interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua may be a comet, not an asteroid
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at asteroid Ryugu
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is gearing up to bomb an asteroid
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NASA outlines its plans to deal with a large asteroid impact
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Two meteors in two days lit up the sky in China and Botswana
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Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
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Weird backwards asteroid may be an interstellar interloper
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We’ve lost track of more than 900 near-Earth asteroids
More than 900 asteroids hurtling close to Earth were seen just once and then lost. Some may be kilometres across, and they could be just about anywhere
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Diamond meteorites may come from a lost ancient planet
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We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
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Interstellar: The bizarre visitor from a far-off solar system
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Mysterious streaks seen on Saturn’s moons could be ancient rings
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