Earth Is Safe From Menacing Asteroid—but Our Moon Might Take the Hit
New Webb Telescope data confirms that asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no threat to Earth during its 2032 flyby. As for the Moon, not ...
Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
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The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
‘Asteroid Bennu’s mystery’: Could it hold the missing link to Earth’s first life?
Asteroid Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old space rock, may hold clues to Earth's origins. With traces of water, amino acids, and ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft Lucy is a space ...
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Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
"It is a potentially hazardous asteroid that may still hit the moon in 2032, and even if it doesn't, it could certainly become an actual hazard in the future," he said.
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Hold the Moon and touch Mars at the Natural History Museum’s new exhibition Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?
A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...
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Tag: Bennu asteroid
NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...
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Next month NASA's Lucy probe will visit an asteroid that's been waiting 150 million years to say hello
"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." The next stop for NASA's asteroid-hopping spacecraft ...