New Scientist2h
Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 - how worried should we be?
The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we ...
This asteroid may hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic—scientists have a plan.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
The Independent6d
An asteroid is heading for Earth - but you'll have to wait a while to find out if we're gonna get hit
an amateur astronomer who shared a visualization of the asteroid on X (formerly Twitter). “It is thought to be 40-100 meters wide. Uncertainty is still high and more observations are needed to c ...
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
PBS4d
The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Minerals Crucial to Life Found in Asteroid Samples From Space
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
CNN7d
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Cracks and fractures in the asteroid allowed water to evaporate to the surface, leaving behind a concentrated brine, or a “soup of the elements,” in its wake. This concentrated brine ...
Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
Gizmodo8d
NASA’s Historic Asteroid Sample Holds Clues to Life’s Origins
Researcher Jason Dworkin holds a vial of asteroid Bennu sample from NASA's ... as it is much richer in phosphorus—an element abundant on asteroids but uncommon on Earth. The team’s findings ...
kcra.com3d
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
In 2023, samples from the asteroid Benu were returned to Earth ... that could have been essential to the steps that lead from elements to life," said the Smithsonian Institution's Tim McCoy ...