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Berlin signing on 7 May commits Japan to launch ESA's Ramses probe on an H3 rocket in 2028, in time to escort Apophis through its 32,000 km flyby of Earth.

Psyche will pass 4,500 kilometers above Mars on May 15 at 12,333 mph, harnessing the planet's gravity to redirect itself toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche and calibrate its imager, magnetometer, and gamma-ray spectrometer.

Scientists have detected all five canonical nucleobases in pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu, the first confirmation of a complete set of DNA and RNA building blocks in material collected directly from space.