An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
Ceres’ Hidden Secrets: Unveiling a Cryovolcanic Giant in the Asteroid Belt
Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Could This Asteroid Be a Lost Chunk of the Moon?
PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...
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-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
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 ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
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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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NASA lets Noida teenager name an asteroid; here’s how you can do the same
Most of these celestial bodies are found orbiting around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. Vesta is the largest asteroid discovered so far. It is about 329 miles (530 ...
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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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Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients
Jupiter became a gas giant ... Ceres, a 580-mile-wide dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, still has brine sloshing through its interior. Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy ...