A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside.
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...
NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
How a new NASA satellite could help solve the global temperature spike mystery
Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.
The asteroid NASA landed on is carrying ingredients for DNA and RNA. It's a promising sign for prospects of alien life.
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
NASA scientists baffled by huge new hole in the sun 62 times size of Earth
Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...
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NASA Issues Statement On Newfound Asteroid With 1 Percent Chance Of Hitting Earth In 2032
NASA has issued a statement on asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly discovered asteroid with an over 1 percent chance of hitting Earth ...
Trump and Elon Musk Say They're Working to Get Astronauts Stuck on Space Station, but NASA Says It Already Has a Plan
Elon Musk says Donald Trump has asked SpaceX to rescue two astronauts who have been in space for more than seven months — ...
Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. Mr. Musk said President Trump had asked for that to occur “as soon as possible.” ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.