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2024 YR4: What to know about the asteroid that could hit Earth in the future
Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...
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Last fall, a hunk of interstellar material began orbiting the planet. What was it?
Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...
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How do astronomers track asteroids that could threaten Earth?
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Carnegie Institution for Science14d
Bringing Asteroids to Earth: A Trip to the Early Solar System
Soon, the rare Ryugu samples will make their way to our campus, where cosmochemist Larry Nittler will study them for clues about the formation of our early Solar System. In this Asteroid Day edition ...
Carnegie Institution for Science14d
Bringing Asteroids to Earth: A Trip to the Early Solar System
Soon, the rare Ryugu samples will make their way to our campus, where EPL Staff Scientist Larry Nittler will study them for clues about the formation of our early Solar System. Nittler has prepared a ...
The Conversation14d
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
William Rickard receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Australia Government Nick Timms and Phil Bland do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...
The Daily Telegraph14d
DNA building blocks found in asteroids for first time
She added: “Together we have made huge progress in understanding how asteroids like Bennu evolved ... is a relic from the formation of the solar system which has been perfectly preserved ...
Space.com15d
NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means
and all of these bioessential elements could have been delivered on asteroids like Bennu in the early solar system, to the Earth and to other planets as well, to enable them to be seeded with all ...
Nature15d
Asteroids, comets and Kuiper belt articles from across Nature Portfolio
Asteroids are composed of metals and rock, whereas comets also contain ice and dust. The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from ...
ScienceAlert17d
What If The Solar System Had a Super-Earth? Here's What Would Happen.
Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together ... "What if the asteroid belt, instead of forming the ring of smaller asteroids that it is today, what if it had formed a planet ...
Newsweek22d
Interstellar Visitor May Have Scrambled Our Solar System
This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...