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Science, Solar System

Colorado town throws 100th birthday party for pet space rock

Curation teams process the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in a cleanroom in 2023. Credit: NASA.

Science, Solar System

Asteroid Bennu sample shows more signs of a watery past

Artist's rendition of asteroid Psyche

Could Psyche be the core of the planetesimal that struck Earth and formed the Moon?

Objects like Arrokoth could preserve ‘primitive ices’ from the birth of our solar system

NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)

Water molecules identified on asteroids for the first time

This is a possible solution to what can cause a ‘snowball Earth’

The first fragment of 2024 BX1 recovered by the Natural History Museum/DLR/Freie Universtaet Berlin team. Credit: Natural History Museum in Berlin.

Scientists have recovered pieces of the asteroid that burned up over Germany

A newly discovered asteroid will swing past Earth this weekend, coming closer than the Moon

Asteroids: What they are and where they come from

Asteroid dust found at Chicxulub Crater confirms cause of dinosaurs’ extinction

Dinkinesh and its contact binary satellites seen just 6 minutes after Lucy came in closest contact with the asteroids. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Surprise! NASA’s Lucy mission uncovered an asteroid moon that is actually two in one

Bennu regolith scattered around the outside of OSIRIS-REx's sample collector

Material collected from Bennu shows signs of abundant water and carbon — components necessary for life