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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'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
Could lumpy metallic rocks in the deepest, darkest reaches of the ocean be making oxygen in the absence of sunlight?
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The geological secrets of Estabrook Park
Bubbler Talk listener, Sophia Heyn discovered the geological history of quarrying in Estabrook Park while researching a ...
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 ...