Asteroid mission captures rarely seen perspective of Mars during close flyby

NASA’s Psyche mission to investigate a metal-rich asteroid captured rare glimpses of Mars during a recent flyby.
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Inside the audacious plan to bag asteroids and drag them into near-orbit for mining

The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world resources: catching a 100-ton asteroid in a giant inflatable bag and dragging it back to Earth’s ...
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TransAstra Launches 'New Moon' Study to Capture and Relocate a Near-Earth Asteroid

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / March 18, 2026 / TransAstra, a Los Angeles-based space infrastructure company, is conducting an investor- and customer-funded study to define a mission to capture a ...

NASA’s Psyche Mission Just Blew Past Mars. It Picked Up More Than Speed

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of the Red Planet on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 ...
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NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures a Surprisingly Brilliant Martian Crescent on Its Way to an Asteroid Rendezvous

After a Mars flyby on May 15, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is well on its way to a 2029 rendezvous with the asteroid Psyche.
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Smallsat missions proposed to study asteroid Apophis

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office SALT LAKE CITY — Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and ...