Asteroid Phaethon’s mysterious tail may finally have an explanation
News Science & Astronomy This illustration depicts asteroid Phaethon being heated by the Sun. The asteroid’s surface gets so hot ...
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Surprise! Asteroid ‘Dinky’ is actually a double space rock, NASA’s Lucy probe reveals (photo)
News Science & Astronomy NASA’s Lucy probe captured this image of the binary asteroid Dinkinesh during a flyby on Nov. ...
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Sun-blocking dust from asteroid impact drove the dinosaur extinction
Earth The Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago filled the sky with fine silicate dust, which blocked out sunlight and ...
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Nearby asteroid may contain elements ‘beyond the periodic table’, new study suggests
A handful of asteroids in our solar system are so dense that no element on Earth can explain their properties. ...
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A Mission to the Asteroid Psyche Is Her Dream Journey
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is on a journey back in time, to unlock the secrets of the early solar system, and to ...
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NASA’s 1st asteroid sample is rich in carbon and water, OSIRIS-REx team finds
News Science & Astronomy A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can ...
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Houston, We Have an Asteroid: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Capsule Arrives at Johnson Space Center
A shipping container with the canister of asteroid Bennu sample is strapped down onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft. ...
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OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid sample lands in Houston (photos)
News Science & Astronomy Crews unload a box containing the OSIRIS-REx mission's asteroid sample from a plane in Houston on ...
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Asteroid sample returned to Earth is a time capsule of the ancient solar system
ByCarrie ArnoldPublished September 24, 2023• 7 min readAt 8:52 a.m. local time today, a mini fridge-size capsule carrying rock samples ...
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NASA to Reveal Asteroid Sample Grabbed in Space, Delivered to Earth
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s ...
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