On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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First spotted last month by a telescope in Chile, the near-Earth asteroid — designated 2024 YR4 — is estimated to be 130 to ...
A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...