Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Asteroid with a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 spotted by astronomers
YR4, the asteroid is estimated to be between 40 m and 100 m wide and is projected to come close to Earth in December 2032.
NASA Tracking Truck-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
Bennu Asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off after another ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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Asteroid large enough to spark 'globally catastrophic' destruction to soar past Earth tomorrow
Larger than 99 per cent of known space rocks, the asteroid ranks among the five largest celestial objects expected to come within 15 billion kilometres of Earth from now until 2200. Jake Foster, a ...
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Asteroid AB 2025 to make its closest approach to Earth at just 150,000 kilometers
Asteroid 2025 AB, a 42-foot Near-Earth Asteroid, will pass just 95,200 miles from Earth, providing scientists a unique chance to study it closely. Falling under the Aten category, such asteroids ...
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Chinese 'robot dog' that moves like a cat could revolutionize space exploration and asteroid mining
When you’re hurtling through space on the side of an asteroid, even a small misstep could cause serious damage — or even leave you stranded in space, drifting away from the rock itself.
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NASA Monitoring Bus-Sized Asteroid Heading Earthward
"Asteroids are 'bits of a planet that didn't happen' that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt. However, as they are relatively small, asteroids can be disturbed quite ...
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Asteroid Collision Shocked NASA Scientists, They Can't Explain Why This Happened
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