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Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system’s potential for life was widespread

ASTRONOMY
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past...

Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term, research finds

ASTRONOMY
Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to...

Apophis: A new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth

ASTRONOMY
The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at...

Tiny fragments of a 4-billion-year-old asteroid reveal its history

ASTRONOMY
In June 2018, Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for about 15 months, deploying small rovers and a...

Asteroid mining: A potential trillion-dollar industry

ASTRONOMY
Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, first detected the 33-foot-long asteroid in August, reporting...

Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe

EARTH
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information...

Investigating the possibility of using asteroid material to grow edible biomass for astronauts

ASTRONOMY
A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, has found that it might be...

Five-mile asteroid impact crater below Atlantic captured in ‘exquisite’ detail by seismic data

EARTH
New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by researchers at Heriot-Watt...

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

ASTRONOMY
ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary...

Team discovers evidence of cometary dust hitting the asteroid Ryugu

ASTRONOMY
Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that gained significant attention when the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission collected samples and returned them to Earth. These samples have...

“God of Darkness” asteroid Apophis set for historic Earth flyby

EARTH
In a bold extension of its mission, the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx embarks on an unprecedented journey to explore asteroid Apophis. This celestial body is set...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovers 2nd asteroid during Dinkinesh flyby

ASTRONOMY
On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal...
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