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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 ...
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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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 ...
Asteroid could hit Earth and spark global winter as year of 'impact' pinpointed
Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...
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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 ...
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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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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...