Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
Was that an earthquake? Nope, it was falling space junk.
As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.
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Asteroid Bennu Contains Life's 'Basic Building Blocks': Studies
The findings suggest Bennu's parent was once home to pockets of liquid water. When these evaporated, they left behind a ...
And now something fun for a change: Building blocks of life in Bennu asteroid samples
In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...
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Our Moon Was Geologically Active Just a 'Hot Minute' Ago, Study Finds
Our planet's Moon might look dead and stagnant from our vantage point here on Earth, but a new study suggests it was moving about just a 'hot minute' ago.
The Meteorites by Helen Gordon — to catch a falling star
An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
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Exploring the World's Disappearing Glaciers: What You Need to Know Before They're Gone
The Sheer Beauty of Glaciers Imagine a vast expanse of ice stretching out as far as the eye can see. This is the sight that greets you when you visit nearly any glacier in the world. They are like ...