From hovering spheres to hopping ‘hedgehogs’, Nasa has chosen 13 new technologies to test for deep space mission.
The space agency will use parabolic flights and suborbital launch vehicles to see how the technologies perform in microgravity.
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.
