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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 ...
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 ...
An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
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NASA Soars to New Heights in First 100 Days of Trump Administration
NASA has spent the first 100 days of the Trump-Vance Administration continually exploring, innovating, and inspiring.
"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 ...
NASA’s Lucy Gears Up for a Thrilling Close Encounter With a Mysterious Space Relic
NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...
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The Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 as NASA budget cuts loom. How many more birthdays will it have?
It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.
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.