Opinion: NASA’s asteroid mission to Apophis: Key for Earth’s defense
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system
They orbit the sun and come in many different shapes, sizes and chemical compositions. Asteroid Bennu was targeted for the OSIRIS-REx mission because remote sensing observations from Earth ...
A Lake That Disappeared Holds Clues to Life Beyond Earth
Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...
NASA makes 'emergency' decision as chances of 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth are increased to 1-in-43
As the chances of the 'city-killing' asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth increase, the world's space agencies have made a rare emergency decision.
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The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt ... mission to an asteroid A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in 2020, jammed its arm into the rock's surface, and scooped ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
These needles — roughly 10 times thinner than a human hair — are water-bearing sodium carbonates (or soda ash) found in the samples of asteroid Bennu ... meaning their shape can take one ...
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The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
They found that Vegavis had the toothless beak and brain shape characteristic ... Blocks Inside an Asteroid: Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide ...
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Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
Here's what to know about the asteroid 2024 YR4 and it's chances of hitting Earth: This mosaic image shows the asteroid Bennu, composed of 12 PolyCam ... Data suggests that the asteroid has an ...