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Tiny fragment of asteroid giving Field Museum scientists a glimpse 4.6 billion years into the past
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
The Return of 2024 YR4: The Asteroid Once Threatening Earth Now Poised for Close Call With the Moon in 2032
NASA has continuously been monitoring 2024 YR4 since it was first reported on Dec. 27 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...
NASA Raises Odds of Asteroid Smacking the Moon in 2032
YR4, which previously posed the highest impact risk to Earth ever recorded, has now been assessed a slightly higher chance of ...
Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life
Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...
NASA Warns Of 250-ft Building-Sized Asteroid Passing Earth Today At 45,529 KMPH: Should We Be Worried?
A massive 250-foot asteroid named 2015 XR1 is hurtling past Earth today at over 45,000 kilometres per hour., Science News - ...
Could an asteroid hit the moon? Odds rise after NASA's Webb examines YR4. The projections
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...
Odds of ‘city-killer’ asteroid hitting the Moon go up again
An asteroid that, until a few months ago, was believed to be a threat to Earth is increasingly looking like it could crash ...
Unique asteroid sample lands at the Field Museum
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
This asteroid won't strike Earth. Here's why NASA is still watching.
After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There ...
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China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid
The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...
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NASA raises the odds that an asteroid could hit the moon in 2032
YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...