Ceres’ Hidden Secrets: Unveiling a Cryovolcanic Giant in the Asteroid Belt
Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
"It is possible that asteroid 2024 YR4 will fade from view before we are able to entirely rule out any chance of impact in ...
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...
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Astronomers Raise Odds of Asteroid Impact in 2032 to 2.3 Percent—Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic
The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
Mysterious New Asteroid Turns Out To Be Tesla Roadster in Space
The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Could This Asteroid Be a Lost Chunk of the Moon?
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...