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Deep space asteroid sample contains unexpected ingredient

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. On December 5, 2020, a small…

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June skygazing: A strawberry moon, the summer solstice… and Asteroid Day!

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. June 1 Crescent Moon Visible Between…

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NASA snaps detailed photos of ‘strikingly complicated’ asteroid

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this…

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Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid: A hydrothermal system may have helped

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of…

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JWST snaps first image of asteroid that threatened Earth

The deep space asteroid that recently made headlines for its potential to collide with Earth received its own photoshoot courtesy…

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Asteroid impact threat estimates improved for the Earth and the Moon

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032…

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Age of upcoming asteroid flyby target

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago…

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ESO observations help almost fully rule out 2024 YR4 asteroid impact

New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and facilities around the…

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Deposits found on a nearby asteroid point to salty water in the outer Solar System

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a…

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Scientists simulate asteroid collision effects on climate and plants

A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics…

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