NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected…
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The Far-Flung Origin of Life’s Building Blocks: Researchers Uncover “Completely Unexpected” Findings
Many of Earth’s volatiles came from beyond Jupiter. Credit: Imperial College London/NASA Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile…
This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar object discovered in the Solar System, 1I/’Oumuamua, discovered in 2017. The wayward object swung within 24 million miles…
A conceptual image for sampling materials on the asteroid Ryugu containing uracil and niacin by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Credit: NASA Goddard/JAXA/Dan Gallagher Samples from the…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Never-Before-Seen…
Hubble captures the debris from the DART impact being swept back into a comet-like tail by the pressure of sunlight on the tiny dust particles.…
Asteroids have the potential to collide with the Earth and cause catastrophic damage. While most asteroids burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the…
Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The first asteroid to…
The NEOMIR orbiting observatory will act as an early warning system to detect and monitor any asteroid coming towards Earth from the Sun’s direction. NEOMIR…
This conceptual image illustrates the types of organic molecules found in the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Organics are the building…
NASA’s Deep Space Network tracked one of the most elongated asteroids ever imaged by planetary radar. This is an artist’s illustration. See the image below…
The formation of the solar system remains one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy and planetary science. Scientists believe that the solar system formed around…
Asteroid “Chelyabinsk 2013” explodes over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15, 2013. Credit: The Planetary Society/YouTube On February 15, 2013, the people of…
Carbonaceous chondrites are a type of stony meteorite that is rich in organic compounds, including amino acids. These amino acids, which are the building blocks…
Asteroid 2023 CX1 entering Earth’s atmosphere captured in the skies over the southern Netherlands. Credit: Gijs de Reijke Seventh Shooting Star Ever Spotted Before Impact…
An asteroid roughly the size of Rome’s Colosseum — between 300 to 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length — has been detected by…
Rendering of Jupiter Trojan Swarm. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A rapidly migrating Jupiter mechanism offers crucial new insights into the early evolution of the Solar System. An…
Asteroid Ryugu – Image taken at 20km on 26 June 2018, diameter 870 m. Credit: Hayabusa2/JAXA A large international collaboration utilized the Diamond Light SourceDiamond…
Asteroid Itokawa. Credit: Curtin University Curtin University-led research into the durability and age of an ancient asteroid made of rocky rubble and dust, revealed significant…
In the world’s first test of asteroid deflection, Hera will perform a detailed post-impact survey of the target asteroid, Dimorphos – the orbiting Moonlet in…