NASA’s Asteroid Sample Reveals a Shocking Link Between Space and Earth’s Salt Lakes
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Business Insider on MSN11d
The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Risk of football pitch-sized asteroid hitting Earth doubles in a week
The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to deflect the ...
PBS1d
How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth
The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
Daily Express US on MSN1d
NASA's moon mission hopes boosted as scientists uncover 'violent' phenomenon
A pair of huge canyons on the Moon's far side were created when an asteroid passed over the lunar south pole and then slammed ...
NASA eyeing close call with asteroid in 2032
For about six weeks now, NASA has been tracking a small asteroid called “2024 YR4.” It has a very low chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.