NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid ...
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Origins of Water on Earth May Not Have Started with an Asteroid Impact todayheadline
Did the chemical components necessary to create water on Earth come from space or already exist here? One prevailing notion ...
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Was there ever a planet between Mars and Jupiter?
Back to Article List From the April 2025 issue It is highly unlikely a planet ever existed in this location, ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could still hit the moon, JWST observations reveal todayheadline
There is a small chance of asteroid 2024 YR4 striking the moonESA/NASA For a brief period earlier this year, the ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4: Odds of collision with Earth in 2032 have reached new high todayheadline
An artist’s impression of what asteroid 2024 YR4 could look like as it approaches Earth in December 2032NASA NASA has ...
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There’s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon todayheadline
Artist’s impression of an asteroid nearing the moonNASA/JPL-Caltech Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but ...
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What would happen if Bennu hit Earth?
Back to Article List Although classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid, Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The asteroid 101955 Bennu appears in this mosaic of images captured by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona The ...
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An asteroid got deleted because it was actually Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster
That’s no asteroid. That’s … a car? Credit: SpaceX On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...
Read moreDetailsStudy Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock
Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. ...
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