The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...
AX165, a 260-foot near-Earth object, will come closer to Earth on 20 February 2025, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...
Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission from the asteroid Bennu reveal further evidence of water, organics and other ...
Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...
On Friday the 13th (yes, really) of April 2029, Earth will avoid an apocalyptic event by an astronomical hair’s breadth as the asteroid Apophis, streaks by. It will come closer to Earth than the ...
The sample was collected from Bennu in October 2020 by a NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx, or Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer. It marked the ...
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