NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet. The space rock—dubbed "2025 BV5"—is estimated by NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
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How did life's building blocks end up on dwarf planet Ceres?The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...
A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in SpaceThe car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.
NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...
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