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China launches probe seeking asteroid samples

BEIJING – China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home...

Gobsmacked

“How’s your asteroid?” On Tuesday last week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that an asteroid measuring 40-90 meters (130 to 300 feet) wide...

A ‘city-killer’ asteroid might hit Earth — how worried should we be?

Washington, United States — A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly...

Life’s ‘basic building blocks’ found in asteroid samples

Paris, France—Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of...

Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, lab experiment suggests

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the...

Scientists pinpoint dino-killing asteroid’s origin: past Jupiter

“Sample analyses now show that the celestial object was far different in composition from a subset of meteorites which are believed to have been...

NASA readies for dramatic return of asteroid sample to Earth

The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a NASA capsule is due to land in the Utah desert, carrying to Earth...

Asteroid to cross Earth’s orbit, ‘but collision unlikely’

An international mall chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision. The 1.5 kilometer—(0.9 mile-) wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was discovered in area...

NASA kicked asteroid off course in test to save Earth

By Issam Ahmed NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability...

Asteroid dust collected by Japan probe arrives on Earth

In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth on Sunday after being dropped off...
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