Spacefarers may contaminate other worlds—but scientists have plans to keep the cosmos clean
In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and ...
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'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say
YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...
A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
First words decoded from burnt scrolls that haven’t been read in nearly 2,000 years
This week, explore decoded words from charred ancient scrolls, meet heroic frog daddies, see Grand Canyon-size lunar features ...
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In a statement, the Kremlin said Yuri Borisov, who had headed Roscosmos since July 2022, had been replaced Dmitry Bakanov, a deputy transport minister who ran a satellite company before joining the ...
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Asteroid Bennu's potential 2182 impact: Catastrophic climate threat?
Scientists from South Korea have conducted simulations regarding the potential impact of asteroid Bennu on Earth in the year ...
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Researchers say an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon
That's good news for NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing side later this ...
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NASA finds life's building blocks from an unknown water world in asteroid sample
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Why It's Likely That Other Technological Species Exist
We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
Blue Origin mission simulates moon gravity
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...
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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.