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NASA grabbed a whopping 120 grams of rubble from asteroid Bennu, and it may contain the seeds of life
NASA scientists have finally tallied how much material a spacecraftsnatched from a distant “potentially hazardous” asteroid, and it turns out…
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‘Cut down in their prime’: Dinosaurs were thriving in Africa before the asteroid hit
66 million years ago, the last dinosaurs vanished from Earth. We’re still trying to understand why. New fossils of abelisaurs…
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There’s an asteroid out there worth $100,000 quadrillion. Why haven’t we mined it?
On Oct. 13, 2023, NASA launched a mission to 16 Psyche, a large, metal-rich asteroid about six years away, to…
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Water detected on the surface of an asteroid for the 1st time ever
Water molecules have been detected on the surface of an asteroid for the first time, revealing new clues about the…
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Impact crater from dinosaur-killing asteroid was a scorching 600 degrees F, ‘paleothermometer’ reveals
Using a “paleothermometer,” researchers have determined the temperature of the Chicxulub crater just after the dinosaur-killing asteroid created it 66…
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Asteroid Bennu may be ‘a fragment of an ancient ocean world’, 1st sample analysis suggests
Scientists are now inspecting snagged, bagged and tagged bits and pieces from asteroid Bennu, the cosmic mother lode delivered by…
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The Geminid meteors may be 10 times older than we thought, simulations of oddball asteroid Phaethon suggest
The rocks making up the Geminid meteor shower that occurs towards the end of every year may have been born…
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‘City killer’ asteroid will make its closest approach to Earth for centuries this Friday (Feb. 2)
A “potentially hazardous” football stadium-size asteroid will zip safely past Earth on Friday (Feb. 2), and, in doing so, will…
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‘This might be the seeds of life’: Organic matter found on asteroid Ryugu could explain where life on Earth came from
A detailed investigation of asteroid Ryugu samples has provided further evidence that the organic molecules which gave rise to life…
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Newly discovered asteroid the size of an airplane will have ‘very close encounter’ with Earth on Saturday — and you can watch it happen
An asteroid discovered earlier this month will reach its closest point to Earth on Saturday (Jan. 27), when it will…
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