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- NASA enters ‘home stretch’ to reach golden asteroid https://studyfinds.org/nasa-mission-golden-asteroid/ 90 comments
- NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubble https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/nasa-spacecraft-begins-2-year-trip-home-with-asteroid-rubble 5 comments space
- Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears home https://abcnews.go.com/technology/wirestory/japan-spacecraft-carrying-asteroid-soil-samples-nears-home-74424814?cid=clicksource_4380645_7_heads_posts_headlines_hed 28 comments technology
- Japanese spacecraft starts yearlong journey home from asteroid https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/japan-spacecraft-starts-yearlong-journey-home-asteroid-191113085654779.html 6 comments worldnews
- The first rovers to explore an asteroid just sent photos home https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-rovers-explore-asteroid-just-sent-photos-home 3 comments science
- NASA probe about to leave for asteroid Bennu and bring bits home http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/05/nasa-spacecraft-launches-thursday-seeking-the-seeds-of-life-on-asteroid/ 12 comments space
- Fall of asteroid(?) in my home city Chelyabinsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bv=4ZxXYscmgRg&feature=player_embedded 8 comments russia
- Space dust from asteroid impacts could contain signs of living organisms that existed on their home planets https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00283.html 8 comments space
- Space dust from asteroid impacts could contain signs of living organisms that existed on their home planets https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/solid-grains-ejected-from-terrestrial-exoplanets-as-a-probe-of-the-abundance-of-life-in-the-milky-way/DCE143A8709BB800DF7DD238735220B4 13 comments science
- Fungi could be used make soil from asteroids, as well as provide the structural backbone for homes built on Mars. https://astronomy.com/news/2022/04/fungi-could-make-soil-from-asteroids-and-homes-on-mars 7 comments space
- To an Asteroid and Back (2024) - Follow along with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team, as they launch a spacecraft to an asteroid, collect a sample of Bennu, and bring it home to Earth. [01:49:22] https://plus.nasa.gov/video/to-an-asteroid-and-back/#fullscreen-player 4 comments documentaries
- An asteroid impact 66 million years ago wiped out most life across the planet. New research finds the crater it left behind was home to sea life less than a decade after impact, and contained a thriving ecosystem within 30,000 years — a much quicker recovery than other sites around the globe. https://news.utexas.edu/2018/05/30/life-recovered-rapidly-at-site-of-dino-killing-impact 7 comments science
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has beamed home the first close-up photo of the huge asteroid Vesta, just days after entering orbit around the distant space rock. http://www.space.com/12332-giant-asteroid-vesta-nasa-spacecraft-photos.html 3 comments space
- Despite solar flares, communications blackouts, ruptured fuel lines, failed batteries, broken thrusters, and a fiery reentry over Australia (that part was actually planned) Japan's Hayabusa probe brings home the asteroid dust samples http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/108299129.html 7 comments science