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NASA space probe Lucy flies by asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh, the first of eight asteroids planned to be visited by the spacecraft.
2023-11-1

NASA says that its DART spacecraft has successfully altered the orbit of the 520 ft asteroid Dimorphos by around 32 minutes in a demonstration of asteroid impact avoidance.
2022-10-11

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully impacts Dimorphos at 23:16 UTC, becoming the first spacecraft to impact an asteroid.
2022-09-26

NASA announces the scheduled launch of Lucy, a twelve-year space probe on the Jupiter trojan asteroids, the first mission to do so. It will launch from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 16.
2021-09-28

Boulders are discovered on the Bennu asteroid by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is expected to collect samples from the asteroid's surface later this month.
2020-10-10

NASA announces that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will be launched from Cape Canaveral on April 16.
2018-04-12

Near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 with an estimated diameter of about 50 m comes within 17,200 miles (27,700 km) from the Earth's surface. This distance is a record close approach for a known object of such size.
2013-02-15

Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis passes close to the Earth with observations by European astronomers estimating that it is larger than previously thought.
2013-01-10

NASA scientists are planning to capture a 500 ton near-Earth asteroid, relocate it and turn it into a space station for astronauts on their route to Mars after 2025.
2012-12-27

NASA observes the asteroid YU 55 as it makes a close Earth flyby, passing within 0.85 lunar distances (about 201,700 miles) of the Earth. YU 55 is approximately 400 m across, and is the largest asteroid to make a close pass since 1976.
2011-11-8