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NASA’s Lucy Continues to Race Towards Its First Target Asteroid

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The Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to visit eight different asteroids, and it’s almost caught up with the first space rock on its checklist. Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023 Since it launched in October 2021, NASA’s Lucy mission has trekked through over 33 million miles (54 … Read more

What to Know About NASA’s Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid

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Wedged between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the main asteroid belt contains over 1 million rocky objects, but perhaps few of them are as intriguing as Psyche. The metal-rich asteroid might have once been an ancient planetary building block that was stripped of its outer rocky shell as our solar system came to be. … Read more