Enlarge / This artist’s concept shows the possible appearance of ESA’s RAMSES spacecraft, which will release two small CubeSats for…
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Scientists analyzing samples NASA brought back from an asteroid got a surprise detection that may mean the space rock was…
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What if, in 14 years, a newly-discovered asteroid was likely to strike Earth? But that’s not all. This threatening space…
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When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official target Dinkinesh in November 2023, researchers discovered that the asteroid —…
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Enlarge / The surface of Ryugu. Image credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute…
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Enlarge / We’d like to avoid this. Science Photo Library/Andrzej Wojcicki/Getty Images In 2005, the United States Congress laid out…
Read More » An asteroid discovered last November is in fact a solar system toddler — just 2-3 million years old, a Cornell…
Read More » Samples reveal evidence of changes experienced by the surface of asteroid Ryugu, some probably due to micrometeoroid bombardment. Analyzing samples…
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Mars is a desolate, irradiated, lifeless, windswept land. But it’s also the site of dramatic activity, as space rocks pummel…
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After months struggling to open NASA’s asteroid sample canister, agency scientists finally know how much dust and rock its spacecraft…
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