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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
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Scientists reveal what they found in sample taken from Bennu asteroid
NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the building blocks of life exist in the universe.
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Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
FILE PHOTO: The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft ...
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Asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx have building blocks of life, reveals study
The OSIRIS-REx mission surpassed expectations by not ... classification as a potentially hazardous asteroid. Its projected trajectory brings it dangerously close to Earth in the future ...
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Scientists reveal what they found in sample taken from Bennu asteroid
Jason Dworkin, a project scientist with OSIRIS-REx at Nasa, described the findings ... At the time, Apophis was thought to be on a trajectory toward Earth. After additional assessments ...