ASTEROID MISSION: A NASA spacecraft grabbed a handful of soil and rocks from an asteroid 200 million miles from earth. Scientists say studying the asteroid’s ancient particles is as if they’re looking at the universe’s DNA. The samples will return to earth in three years. https://cbsn.ws/35xf7cf | CBS Evening News

A new spin on asteroid formation: how observations from NASA's #DARTMission are refining our understanding of how some binary asteroid pairs come to be http://go.nasa.gov/3Sw0kaZ In 2026, ESA - European Space Agency's Hera mission is slated to perform a detailed post-impact survey of DART's target asteroid, Dimorphos https://esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera | NASA Solar System Exploration