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HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being ...

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton took the helm of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration in 2014 and put in a bid for the school to lead a NASA mission. This month, NASA chose ASU to lead ...

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BOULDER, Colorado — Asteroid experts are pondering the scientific output from the NASA Lucy spacecraft after it shot by its celestial destination — the main belt asteroid named Donaldjohanson. Here at ...