Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system's potential for life was widespread
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...
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Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
The planets align for this astronomical event
Through the end of February, all the planets in our solar system will visibly align in the sky, like a trope taken straight ...
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Why Mercury Is Harder to Reach Than Pluto!
Venus, Mars, and even Jupiter were visited decades ago. So why did it take so long for a mission to reach Mercury? 🌞 This video explores the surprising obstacles that make this tiny planet one of the ...
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A Mysterious Object Visited Our Solar System And Altered The Orbits Of Four Planets
Long ago, a planetary object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have once visited the solar system and altered […] The post ...
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Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...