"Teams of scientists and engineers around the world have been figuratively racing one another to the moon as they try to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million contest meant to spark a new generation of moon rovers."
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.