Researchers trace 70% of meteorites to 3 families of asteroids
Meteorite El Médano 128, an ordinary chondrite (group L), discovered in the Atacama Desert in 2011 by a team of ...
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Analyzes of Ryugu samples show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed for the start of life on Earth
SEM/EDS analyzes of the extracted particle A0218. Credit: Natural astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02366-w An international team of researchers from a ...
Data on near-Earth asteroids helps probe a possible fifth force in the universe
Bennu and other nearby asteroids. Credit: NASA In 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected ...
Ryugu samples challenge previous ideas about the formation of carbon-rich asteroids
About two million years after the formation of the solar system, the first carbonaceous chondrites made up of dust, chondrules, ...
NASA’s DART probe impact permanently altered the shape and orbit of the asteroid’s moon, new study finds
Illustration depicting NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to its impact with the Didymos binary asteroid system. Credit: ...
King Kong, vampires, asteroids: trendy AI misinformation popular on TikTok
TikTok is on everyone's lips in the US Congress because of its supposed links to the Chinese state, but in ...
Scientists identify water molecules on asteroids for the first time
Using data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the Southwest Research Institute have discovered, for the ...
Model suggests some near-Earth asteroids are being torn apart by its gravity
Examples of ensemble orbit distributions that could result from a large number of tidal disturbances of near-Earth objects with a ...
Analysis reveals that organic compounds found in asteroids likely formed in colder regions of space.
Credit: CC0 Public domain Analysis of organic compounds – called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) – extracted from the asteroid Ryugu ...
