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2025 Was The Year Humanity Got Closer Than Ever To Finding Alien LifeAn exoplanet around a sun-like star with green water and air!

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2025 Was The Year Humanity Got Closer Than Ever To Finding Alien LifeAn exoplanet around a sun-like star with green water and air!
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2025 Was The Year Humanity Got Closer Than Ever To Finding Alien Life

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Asteroid Bennu Was Missing Just One Ingredient Needed To Kickstart Life – We Just Found ItA donut shaped metallic container (the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule) with some dark gray gravel spilling out, the material from asteroid Bennu.

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Asteroid Bennu Was Missing Just One Ingredient Needed To Kickstart Life – We Just Found ItA donut shaped metallic container (the OSIRIS-REx sample capsule) with some dark gray gravel spilling out, the material from asteroid Bennu.
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Asteroid Bennu Was Missing Just One Ingredient Needed To Kickstart Life – We Just Found It

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"Happy Molecule" Precursor Discovered In Extraterrestrial Material For The First Timein a metallic donut shaped casing, there is some dark gray loose soil.

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"Happy Molecule" Precursor Discovered In Extraterrestrial Material For The First Timein a metallic donut shaped casing, there is some dark gray loose soil.
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"Happy Molecule" Precursor Discovered In Extraterrestrial Material For The First Time

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How To Park A Dangerous Asteroid So It Doesn’t Bite You LaterAn artwork of NASA’s DART mission, which was a kinetic impactor designed to test whether it is possible to deflect an asteroid.

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How To Park A Dangerous Asteroid So It Doesn’t Bite You LaterAn artwork of NASA’s DART mission, which was a kinetic impactor designed to test whether it is possible to deflect an asteroid.
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How To Park A Dangerous Asteroid So It Doesn’t Bite You Later

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Asteroids Bennu And Ryugu Could Be Siblings – And We Might Have Found Their Parentryugy is much larger than bennu but both have a diamond shape with a lot of boulders on their surface.

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Asteroids Bennu And Ryugu Could Be Siblings – And We Might Have Found Their Parentryugy is much larger than bennu but both have a diamond shape with a lot of boulders on their surface.
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Asteroids Bennu And Ryugu Could Be Siblings – And We Might Have Found Their Parent

clock-iconAugust 25, 2025

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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyonda gloved hand holding a microscope slide with bennu grains inside

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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyonda gloved hand holding a microscope slide with bennu grains inside
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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyond

clock-iconAugust 22, 2025

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Acoustic Sensors Detect Spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule Plummeting Into Earth's AtmosphereBennu sample, returned to Earth.

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Acoustic Sensors Detect Spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule Plummeting Into Earth's AtmosphereBennu sample, returned to Earth.
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Acoustic Sensors Detect Spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule Plummeting Into Earth's Atmosphere

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Asteroid Bennu Has A Tiny Chance Of Hitting Earth – Which Could Start A Global WinterBennu is a grey rhomboid with a lot of little oulders and several crater like structures on its surface

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Asteroid Bennu Has A Tiny Chance Of Hitting Earth – Which Could Start A Global WinterBennu is a grey rhomboid with a lot of little oulders and several crater like structures on its surface
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Asteroid Bennu Has A Tiny Chance Of Hitting Earth – Which Could Start A Global Winter

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Brine From Asteroid Bennu Reveals Conditions Suitable For Life In Early Solar SystemA microscopic view of the sample shows an abundance of thing crystals among the rest of the grains

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Brine From Asteroid Bennu Reveals Conditions Suitable For Life In Early Solar SystemA microscopic view of the sample shows an abundance of thing crystals among the rest of the grains
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Brine From Asteroid Bennu Reveals Conditions Suitable For Life In Early Solar System

clock-iconJanuary 29, 2025
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If A Fifth Force Exists, Asteroid Missions Could Help Find ItThe OSIRIS-REx mission was intended to explore Bennu's composition, but in the process it has revealed its orbit in great detail, putting a ceiling on the strength of any fifth force.

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If A Fifth Force Exists, Asteroid Missions Could Help Find ItThe OSIRIS-REx mission was intended to explore Bennu's composition, but in the process it has revealed its orbit in great detail, putting a ceiling on the strength of any fifth force.
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If A Fifth Force Exists, Asteroid Missions Could Help Find It

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“Tantalizingly Beautiful” Rocks Yield More Evidence That Asteroid Bennu Came From A Wet WorldTwo dark tiny rocks covered in white-blueish cristals like salt deposition

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“Tantalizingly Beautiful” Rocks Yield More Evidence That Asteroid Bennu Came From A Wet WorldTwo dark tiny rocks covered in white-blueish cristals like salt deposition
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“Tantalizingly Beautiful” Rocks Yield More Evidence That Asteroid Bennu Came From A Wet World

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Astronomers Just Updated The Chance Infamous “God Of Chaos” Asteroid Will Hit Earth3d rendering concept illustration of Asteroid 99942 Apophis in space fly by planet Earth

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Astronomers Just Updated The Chance Infamous “God Of Chaos” Asteroid Will Hit Earth3d rendering concept illustration of Asteroid 99942 Apophis in space fly by planet Earth
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Astronomers Just Updated The Chance Infamous “God Of Chaos” Asteroid Will Hit Earth

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Exclusive: We Have Collected The First-Ever Actual Pebbles From An AsteroidA top-down view of a ring of eight wedge-shaped steel containers. Black rocks and dust populate the containers, with the largest amounts in the wedges at the top of the photograph. Stainless steel tools such as tweezers and small scoops are resting on trays on either side of the ring of containers.

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Exclusive: We Have Collected The First-Ever Actual Pebbles From An AsteroidA top-down view of a ring of eight wedge-shaped steel containers. Black rocks and dust populate the containers, with the largest amounts in the wedges at the top of the photograph. Stainless steel tools such as tweezers and small scoops are resting on trays on either side of the ring of containers.
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Exclusive: We Have Collected The First-Ever Actual Pebbles From An Asteroid

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Breaks Record For Largest Asteroid Sample Ever Collected In SpaceA top-down view of a ring of eight wedge-shaped steel containers. Black rocks and dust populate the containers, with the largest amounts in the wedges at the top of the photograph. Stainless steel tools such as tweezers and small scoops are resting on trays on either side of the ring of containers.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Breaks Record For Largest Asteroid Sample Ever Collected In SpaceA top-down view of a ring of eight wedge-shaped steel containers. Black rocks and dust populate the containers, with the largest amounts in the wedges at the top of the photograph. Stainless steel tools such as tweezers and small scoops are resting on trays on either side of the ring of containers.
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Breaks Record For Largest Asteroid Sample Ever Collected In Space

clock-iconFebruary 16, 2024
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OSIRIS-REx Remaining Asteroid Bennu Sample Revealed And Photographed In Super High-Resolution DetailA top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside.

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OSIRIS-REx Remaining Asteroid Bennu Sample Revealed And Photographed In Super High-Resolution DetailA top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the asteroid sample inside.
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OSIRIS-REx Remaining Asteroid Bennu Sample Revealed And Photographed In Super High-Resolution Detail

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