Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth: What we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth—how worried should we be?
A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Is Level 3 On The Torino Scale, With A Very Close Approach In 2032. That's Not Great
An asteroid discovered in 2024 has been placed at level 3 on the Torino impact scale, with a small chance of impact with ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...
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Ancient Stones Were Mysteriously 'Sacrificed' – We Finally Know Why
Antiquity, 2025) Sun stones – or "solsten" in Danish – have been found in great numbers at an archaeological site on Bornholm called Vasagård. The site, in use between around 3500 BCE and 2700 BCE, is ...
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Ancient, engraved stones may have been buried to summon the sun
Around 2900 B.C., they scattered sun stones across the land like seeds in a field, sealed the ditches and built several circular wooden structures on top. “It is a bit special that all of a ...
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The Sun in Capricorn Opposite Mars Retrograde Is All About Ambition, and These 4 Signs Are About to Have Their Work-Life Balance Rocked
On Jan. 15, the sun will oppose Mars retrograde ... house of joint ventures — there could be a push-pull dynamic around your shared assets and energetic exchanges. Perhaps you're reevaluating ...