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Why the meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes – a planetary scientist explains new research
Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...
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An Asteroid Will Fly By Earth in 4 Years. Scientists Are Racing to Uncover Its Secrets.
The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now evolved into OSIRIS-APEX (Apophis Explorer ...
NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...
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NASA’s asteroid sample mission gave scientists around the world the rare opportunity to study an artificial meteor
8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and collected a sample from its surface in October of 2020. The sample returned to Earth in the early morning of Sept. 24, 2023, in a sample ...