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Trump Asks SpaceX to Return NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts to Earth ASAP
Despite a recent request from Trump, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were already scheduled to return to ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Size Asteroid Approaching Earth at 30,000 Mph
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
How a new NASA satellite could help solve the global temperature spike mystery
Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.
NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
NASA scientists baffled by huge new hole in the sun 62 times size of Earth
Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...
The asteroid NASA landed on is carrying ingredients for DNA and RNA. It's a promising sign for prospects of alien life.
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
New Asteroid Tops NASA’s Impact Risk Chart, 1.2% Chance of 2032 Collision
The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking ...
Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. Mr. Musk said President Trump had asked for that to occur “as soon as possible.” ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.
Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...