Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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Webb Telescope Finds An Asteroid Belt And Evidence Of Planets Around Close ‘Royal Star’ Fomalhaut
Published in Nature Astronomy, the new images show two belts around Fomalhaut that could be analogous to the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper belts in our Solar System. Taking advantage of the stunning ...
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How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
How do spacecraft avoid collisions when passing through the asteroid belt? Val-David Smithson Pleasant Grove, Utah Let's begin by reviewing some astronomical "history": Han Solo and his rebel ...
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Asteroids: School Students Make 11 New Discoveries
A team of school students and teachers has discovered 11 small astronomical objects in our solar system, including one provisionally recognized by a NASA-backed program as a main belt asteroid (MBA).
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There May Be Water On Psyche, The Asteroid ‘Worth $10,000 Quadrillion’
massive and heavily metallic body in the main asteroid belt. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected hydrated minerals on the surface of asteroid 16 Psyche. The asteroid is one of the ...