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Asteroid to zoom past Earth in 2029 – and a spacecraft will follow it | Science & Tech News
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A massive asteroid will skim past Earth in 2019 in an “extremely rare natural phenomenon” – and a spacecraft will be sent to track it. It’s hoped the findings from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission will help defend our planet from any similar objects on a collision course in the future. The asteroid 99942…
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Asteroid travelling at more than 40,000mph to reach its closest point to Earth today | Science & Tech News
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An asteroid is whipping past Earth today, travelling at more than 40,000 miles per hour. NASA says the asteroid will pass just 936,000 miles away from Earth, a relatively close-shave in space terms. It’s the closest the asteroid, known as 2024 MT-1, will come to the planet during its orbit around the sun – however,…
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Asteroid the size of a skyscraper to pass close to Earth today | Science & Tech News
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An asteroid the size of a skyscraper will pass close to the Earth today – cosmically speaking. The hulk of space rock is expected to soar within 1.7 million miles of our planet, but there’s no chance of it hitting us, NASA says. The space agency’s Centre for Near Earth Object Studies estimates the asteroid…
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4.5 billion-year-old asteroid could reveal the origins of life on Earth | Science & Tech News
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Samples of a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid could reveal the origins of life on the planet. The teaspoon-sized specimen, taken from asteroid Bennu, is being examined by scientists at the Natural History Museum (NHM). The black dust-like sample could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how Earth was formed. It could hold…
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NASA launches mission to Psyche metal asteroid to discover how life on Earth formed | Science & Tech News
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NASA has launched a mission to a rare asteroid covered in metal that is two billion miles (3.6bn km) and six years’ travel time away from Earth. Scientists hope exploring the Psyche asteroid will help them understand more about how Earth formed and what makes it habitable. Lead scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, of Arizona State University,…
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NASA reveals ‘incredible’ findings from asteroid that could explain origins of life on Earth | Science & Tech News
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NASA has revealed its “incredible” findings from a sample that was scooped up from the surface of an asteroid and delivered to Earth by spacecraft. The sample, ancient black dust and chunks, was collected from the carbon-rich asteroid named Bennu, almost 60 million miles away. It is the largest ever returned to Earth. NASA‘s Osiris-Rex…
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NASA to explore giant metal asteroid Psyche – and it could reveal secrets of solar system | Science & Tech News
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NASA and SpaceX are set to send a spacecraft to a giant metal asteroid discovered back in the 1800s. The goal? To reveal more about the origins of our solar system. Here’s everything you need to know about the mission. What is Psyche? Psyche is the name of the mission, as well as the name…
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Osiris-Rex’s sample from asteroid Bennu will reveal secrets of our solar system | Science & Tech News
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It will make the most incredible unboxing video. In the coming days, NASA scientists will open the capsule containing dust from the asteroid Bennu and delve into the secrets of our solar system. There are just 250g or so of material inside the heavily protected shell that plunged through the atmosphere before parachuting gently into…
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Sir Brian May ‘immensely proud’ to be part of Osiris-Rex asteroid sample team | Ents & Arts News
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Sir Brian May has said he is “immensely proud” to be part of the team who successfully collected NASA’s first asteroid samples from deep space. A capsule containing around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert near Salt Lake City on Sunday. Earlier in the day, the…
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Osiris-Rex: NASA returns sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth | Science & Tech News
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A NASA capsule carrying the largest sample ever collected from an asteroid has returned to Earth. The capsule, which landed in the Utah desert at 3.52pm, contained around 250g of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu as part of NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission. Experts say the carbon-rich, near-Earth asteroid serves as a time capsule from…