NASA’s asteroid mission to Apophis: Key for Earth’s defense
REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...
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Scientists Plan to Prevent Space Contamination
In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...
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Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...
NASA’s Asteroid Sample Reveals a Shocking Link Between Space and Earth’s Salt Lakes
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
Here’s What Would Happen If Asteroid Bennu Hit Earth
Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...
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OSIRIS-REx Samples Provide Clues to Solar System’s Origins
Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...
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Scientists find building blocks of life in OSIRIS-REx...
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
It's an eggshell white, conical probe named SPHEREx, which (get ready for a mouthful ... "Shout out to our team at OSIRIS-REx in the Planetary Division," Domagal-Goldman said. "They pick up that story ...
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Bennu asteroid samples reveal life’s building blocks, new studies show
Osiris-Rex wasn’t the first probe to rendezvous with an asteroid and bring back samples for study – Japan succeeded in the feat twice, returning celestial dust in 2010 and 2020. In addition to ...
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Scientists discover traces of life in NASA asteroid samples
Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest essential building blocks of life were distributed throughout the solar ...
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Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients
In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather clues to the birth of the solar system. Some 4.5 billion years ago, our solar neighborhood started as a cloud of dust ...