Asteroid Bennu Holds Traces of Ancient Water – And Maybe Life’s Origins
Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...
Model suggests asteroid Donaldjohanson formed 150 million years ago
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...
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SwRI-led modeling assesses age of upcoming asteroid flyby target
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...
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NASA's Lucy Targets Next Asteroid Age with New Model
Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for ...
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SwRI Model Evaluates Age of Asteroid Flyby Target
New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed ...
Spinning through space: The astronomers watching the skies for asteroids
"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...
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In a Groundbreaking Discovery NASA Scientists Can Now Track Asteroid and Meteor Strikes on Earth Better
In a Groundbreaking Discovery NASA Scientists Can Now Track Asteroid and Meteor Strikes on Earth Better Space enthusiasts and ...
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Space and Astronomy
The company reached the lunar surface ... space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December 2032. Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu ...
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Scientists find evidence of 'supernova graveyard' at the bottom of the sea — and possibly on the surface of the moon
After finding the debris of two colliding stars swimming in the ocean, researchers are after more evidence from the lunar soil.