"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

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Donaldjohanson, a main belt asteroid, could be a relic of a cosmic collision that took place 150 million years ago.

This artist’s concept compares the approximate size of Lucy’s next asteroid target, Donaldjohanson, to the smallest main belt asteroids previously visited by spacecraft — Dinkinesh, visited by Lucy in ...

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But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

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"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

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Images from Gale Crater show wave-like ripples ... NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has delivered a sample from asteroid Bennu, revealing amino acids, nucleobases, ammonia, and minerals formed in ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

Most recently, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) obtained samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu. In addition to confirming ...