Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
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Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
but it apparently exceeded the orbit of Mars and kept going to the asteroid belt, according to Musk at the time. When the roadster was mistaken for an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than ...
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Researchers have ...
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A 14-year-old Indian boy from Noida discovers a new asteroid; here's how NASA reacts
has discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Soon, he will have the rare honour of naming it. The asteroid, provisionally named '2023 OG40,' was identified ...
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Building-sized asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032
An asteroid up to 100 metres wide has a 1-in-83 chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032. That risk of impact is enough to have triggered global planetary defence response procedures for the ...
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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 shed light on how life arose. By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains ...
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UAE: New asteroid may collide with Earth in 2032 and it may reach India, say experts
A new asteroid, coded '2024 YR24,' has been discovered to have the highest chance of colliding with Earth, the Abu Dhabi-based International Astronomy Centre (IAC) announced. It may pose ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Many are pushing for a mission to collect rocks and dirt from the potentially waterlogged dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also ...
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NASA tracking massive asteroid set to whiz past Earth at 35,000mph in hours
The asteroid, like many others, is a result of the asteroid belt ejecting a rock that makes its way to the Earth's gravitational pull. However, it is still classified as a Near Earth Object (NEO).
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NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
Asteroids in our solar system are mostly found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally, interactions with the gravity of the planets can cause an asteroid to be ejected from ...
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Life's building blocks in Asteroid Bennu samples
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five ...