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Consciousness Formed Before Life Itself, Scientists Say—And the Evidence Could Be in This Asteroid Sample
Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4: Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them?
The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.
"Blew Us Away": Experts On Life-Building Chemicals In Asteroid Bennu Samples
Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ...
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Why meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes — a planetary scientist explains
Carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid Bennu as seen from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft. Credit: NASA For a long time, scientists assumed that the Earth’s atmosphere filtered out ...
Asteroids: NASA Tracking House-Sized Space Rock Near Earth
The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.
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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
It will pass even closer to Earth than some geosynchronous satellites ... The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three ...
Why the meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes – a planetary scientist explains new research
Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research using shooting stars may explain why.