Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

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An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

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BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

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The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

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A recently discovered asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Designated 2024 YR4, it caught astronomers' eyes ...