New Scientist16h
Why we must investigate Phobos, the solar system's strangest object
Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...
NASA Tracking Three Vehicle-Sized Asteroids Nearing Earth Today
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
NASA sends out warning as three giant asteroids set to just miss Earth
NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just 77,200 miles of our planet-roughly one-third ...
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 ...
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From gas giants to rocky worlds: Why planets in our solar system differ
The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...
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Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
Last week, scientists who analyzed the rubble from a near-Earth asteroid reported their first detailed findings. The ...
Daily Maverick on MSN11h
Gravel from space grab upends theories of how life began
A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...
Huge leap in search for aliens after ‘building blocks for LIFE’ found on ancient asteroid Bennu from lost watery world
HUMANS have come a step closer to finding aliens after the “building blocks for life” were discovered by scientists on an ...
An Asteroid Has a 1-in-77 Chance of Hitting Earth. Here's What It Would Do
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
NASA warns three giant asteroids will skim past Earth TODAY
NASA is keeping a close eye on three vehicle-sized asteroids that will make close approaches to Earth today. The trio was ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing insights into life's ingredients on Earth, paralleling those found in the Revelstoke meteorite's analysis.
Western Gazette15h
Western team wins global NASA challenge
Four Western students took home the Best Use of Science Award at the NASA Space Apps Challenge for an app that visualizes ...