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Hyabusa 2

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Japan's Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era

The turn of the decade saw a huge surge of interest in asteroid mining, but now this would-be industry has flopped. Can a tiny Japanese probe revive it?

Insight

$Interstellar ‘Oumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe$

Space

Interstellar ‘Oumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe

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Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station

Space

Here's how we could turn an asteroid into a space station

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

Space

Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage

Space

Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage

Culture

NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

Space

NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited

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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

Space

First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world

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Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

Space

Interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen

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Asteroid 101955 Bennu

Space

NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu

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The Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout seen from Hayabusa 2

Space

Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live

Japan has just dropped off its third lander on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. It has less than a day to complete its mission before its batteries run out

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Space

Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky

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Space

A pair of tiny hopping rovers are about to land on an asteroid

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Space

Asteroids get spun so fast by the force of sunlight they fall apart

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Earth

NASA’s deep-space mission to a $10 quintillion all-metal world

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