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, ...

including the LEISA instrument on New Horizons that captured spectral images of Jupiter and Pluto, the OVIRS instrument for OSIRIS-REx which explored the surface of the asteroid Bennu, and the MISE ...

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 ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

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Abstract: Spectral target detection using spectral information provided by hyperspectral (HS) images has been deeply studied. However, due to low spatial resolution and difficulty in obtaining HS ...

The unit was formed in 2022 by Special Operations Forces veterans, including an officer with the nickname Fidel, part of a battle group which was first to strike the enemy’s deep rear with ...

PowerChina unit claims $555 mln in unpaid dues EdL has yet to respond to the filing Case relates to Laos' Nam Ou hydropower project March 5 (Reuters) - Nam Ou Power, a unit of state-owned Power ...

Credit: Graeme Churchard / CC BY 2.0 Researchers have confirmed the Yarrabubba crater in Australia as the oldest asteroid crater on Earth, dating back 2.229 billion years. This oldest asteroid impact ...

Quickly, quickly! You don't want to be out there. Don't you know that there's an asteroid coming? It's this one, over here. Asteroid 2024 YR4, and it could smash into Earth in 2032. NEWS SOUNDBITE ...

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4.