When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
Bennu is a medium-sized asteroid. According to NASA, Bennu is about one-third of a mile (half a kilometer) wide at its equator. That's far smaller than the six-mile (10-kilometer) wide behemoth ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
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Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samplesMolecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.
Don’t blame astronomers for the odds that an asteroid will strike Earth in 2032. The likelihood has gone from 3.1 per cent to ...
Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...
They modeled what would happen to Earth’s climate, vegetation and oceans if such an asteroid struck land. Medium-size ...
The dream of mining metals in deep space crashed and burned in the 2010s. AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...
Space agencies around the world are tasked with locating, studying and analysing the trajectories of cosmic objects that pose ...
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