Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists search for elusive dark matter throughout the universe
Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...
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Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
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Asteroid Tag
Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system.
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 ...
The Daily Wildcat12d
The creation of life: Asteroid Bennu samples bring new insight into the age-old question
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...
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Time-Lapse Orbit Animation Of OSIRIS-APEX's Epic Journey To Asteroid Apophis
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...
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5 Asteroids That Pose Greatest Threat To Earth As Per NASA List Including Asteroid Bennu
Photo Credit: Pixabay Among these menacing asteroids are Asteroid Bennu, Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA), Asteroid 2023 TL4, Asteroid 2007 FT3 and Asteroid 1979 XB. Photo Credit: NASA The fact that humanity ...
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European Space Agency working on spacecraft to steer asteroids away from Earth
The ‘gravity tractor’ method of asteroid deflection involves flying a spacecraft close enough to an asteroid so its gravitational attraction gradually pulls the body off course ...
Wall Street Journal18d
There’s a Blood Moon Rising. How to Watch the Total Lunar Eclipse.
For the first time since 2022, skywatchers across North and South America will have a chance to glimpse the moon turn a rusty red during a total lunar eclipse, in a phenomenon nicknamed the ...
New Scientist20d
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 ...
Phys.org20d
Remember that asteroid that isn't going to hit Earth? We could send a mission to explore it
Most recently, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming ...
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Planetary defense may get a boost from Jared Isaacman
One example is ongoing efforts to win support for a mission to Apophis, an asteroid that will make a close flyby of the Earth in 2029. NASA has yet to greenlight a dedicated mission to Apophis ...