NASAs Newest Robots Will Spy on Mysterious Lil Asteroids

Published: Jan. 10, 2017, 8:12 a.m.

NASA missions come packaged two ways. They\u2019re either deep explorations of the familiar\u2014STEREO\u2019s focus on the sun, the International Space Station\u2019s study of what microgravity does to the human body\u2014or a trip to some crazy place no one has ever seen before. But still, any strange, distant object the agency targets will likely hold some clue about the origins of life. Humans are spacefaring narcissists that way.