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ESA's Hera spacecraft is set to rendezvous with the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid pair, providing the first close-up views of the crater and debris left by NASA's 2022 DART kinetic impact test to study asteroid deflection for planetary defense.

NASA releases a documentary detailing a real-world test of their planetary defense system to respond to an asteroid threat to Earth.

China's Tianwen-2 space probe has successfully reached Earth's quasi-moon asteroid Kamo'oalewa, capturing first images and preparing for a sample return mission, marking a significant milestone in space exploration.

This weekend, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully flew by asteroid Torifune, while China's Tianwen-2 arrived at its target asteroid for sample return.

Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 will pass 2.56 million km from Earth this weekend, visible with telescopes and binoculars. It poses no collision risk and will not come this close again until 2133.

MIT Technology Review's newsletter introduces a new Engineering issue covering ambitious engineering projects, and also reports on Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI backing a $500-million nonprofit to prevent respiratory infections.

Asteroid 2026 JH2, about 20 meters in diameter, will fly past Earth at a distance of 57,000 miles on May 18, closer than the moon. It poses no threat and can be observed via telescope or live broadcast.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is performing a gravity assist flyby of Mars on May 15 to gain speed and adjust its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The mission will begin studying the asteroid in 2029.