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NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just 77,200 miles of our planet-roughly one-third ...

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Finding this organic material on Benu means that the building blocks of life could have come from an asteroid, and in our ...