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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. It's a win for alien life.

Associated Press · 15m

NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients to life plus salts from an ancient water world

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.

Mashable on MSN · 25m

NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life

Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, some of which have never been found in space rocks. A team at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History discovered a salty residue left over from an ancient brine.

Trump, Musk Suggest Sped-Up Return of NASA Astronauts

Daily Jang · 4h

NASA stranded astronauts to return on earth 'as soon as possible,' Trump orders

SpaceX would have to gear up for another astronautical mission as the founder Elon Musk vowed to bring back the 'abandoned' astronauts.Musk turned to his X on Wednesday, disclosing the plans to bring back the two astronauts that were left

Space.com on MSN · 4h

Trump asks Elon Musk to return 2 Starliner astronauts from the ISS for NASA— but they already have a SpaceX ride home

This decision forced some crew shuffling; NASA had to take two astronauts off the originally four-person Crew-9 launch to make room for Wilmore and Williams on the downward leg. (Both Starliner astronauts are in good health on the ISS, and there are plenty of supplies to support them through the end of their stay, NASA officials have said.)

FOX News on MSN · 9h

Trump, Musk join forces to bring stranded NASA astronauts back via SpaceX after Biden admin ‘abandoned’ them

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Tuesday evening, vowing vow to bring the NASA pilots home after being stranded in space since the summer.

Asteroid, Earth

Newsweek on MSN · 47m

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.

Space on MSN · 23h

Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032

A 196-foot-wide asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of striking Earth in 2032. An expert tells Space.com where this asteroid could impact our planet and what level of destruction it could cause.

Gizmodo · 18h

New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking Earth in just seven years.

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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.

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Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

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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

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

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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.

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Astronaut Whose Return to Earth Keeps Getting Delayed Says She's Been 'Trying to Remember What It’s Like to Walk'

Suni Williams made some candid comments about her extended stay in space while on a call with students from Needham High ...

Gaping 500,000 mile hole in Sun will blast Earth with geomagnetic storms THIS WEEK

The 500,000-mile wide hole has cracked open the sun's atmosphere, leaving a gap over 62 times the diameter of Earth from ...

Scientists discover a super-Earth. Something about it is strange.

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

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Earth from space: Italy's 'ticking time bomb' plays peek-a-boo through a mysterious hole in the clouds

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Breakthrough as NASA discovers planet 6 times as big as Earth that could be habitable

Scientists have confirmed the discovery of a new planet which is six times as large as the Earth and could host alien life.

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