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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 ...
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 Wildcat13d
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 ...
SETI Institute11d
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, ...
NASA’s Lucy Mission Gears Up to Meet a 150-Million-Year-Old Space Relic
Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.
New Scientist20d
The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...
Daily Mail7d
NASA warns 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza will make its closest approach to Earth for more than 100 YEARS tomorrow
NASA lists it as one of the upcoming close ... According to the results so far, an asteroid like Bennu that is rich in carbon could need several small bumps to charge its course.
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Asteroid Mining Gives Companies Hope in the Search for Rare Metals
Learn about the projects that hope to acquire rare metals from space by mining asteroids, creating a budding industry with ...