asteroids, binary asteroids, janus spacecraft, nasa

Where No Spacecraft Has Gone Before: Close Encounter With Binary Asteroids

CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like the Earth and Moon. In a project review on Sept. 3, NASA gave ...

Troy Oakes

Artist's depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft.