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Trump, Musk Suggest Sped-Up Return of NASA Astronauts

Trump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts to Earth ASAP

Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to Earth on a Crew Dragon capsule this spring

People · 2h

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 — even though NASA has said there's a plan in place.

U.S. News & World Report · 13h

Trump, Musk Suggest Sped-Up Return of NASA Astronauts, but Details Scarce

President Donald Trump said Tuesday night he had asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to return two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station, who were already scheduled to fly back on a SpaceX capsule in March.

NASA, Bennu and asteroid

The Associated Press on MSN · 2h

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 remains of an ancient water world.

Indiatimes · 9m

NASA’s Bennu asteroid samples reveal building blocks of life, say scientists

Scientists have discovered essential life-building compounds in dust from asteroid Bennu, supporting the theory that asteroids contributed to life on Earth and other worlds in the Solar System.

Smithsonian Magazine on MSN · 2h

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 acids, offering clues to how early Earth got its ingredients for life

Earth, Asteroid

IFLScience on MSN · 2h

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 within the next decade. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile in late December last year.

Newsweek on MSN · 4h

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 · 1d

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.

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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.

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.

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 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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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 ...

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Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Digital Camera World on MSN6d

NASA photographs the rare occurrence of the moon crossing the face of the Earth from a million miles away

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...

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Department of Geology now Department of Earth Sciences

The Department of Geology has changed its name to the Department of Earth Sciences to better reflect the breath of its work.

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