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Tag: Asteroid
Asteroid Dust Caused 15-Year Winter That Killed Dinosaurs, Scientists Say – Slashdot
[ad_1] Around 66 million years ago, the Chicxulub asteroid caused a mass extinction event, killing three-quarters of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs. A new study suggests that fine silicate…
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches $1 billion asteroid mission for NASA
[ad_1] [The livestream has ended. A replay is available in the video player above.] SpaceX’s powerful Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched on Friday morning, carrying a NASA mission bound for…
NASA unveils asteroid sample that could reveal details about life on Earth
[ad_1] NASA revealed Wednesday that newly returned samples from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid contain traces of carbon and water — molecules that are thought to make up the building blocks of…
Watch: Moment sample from asteroid Bennu lands on Earth
[ad_1] There were celebrations in the Nasa control room as a capsule containing samples from the asteroid Bennu touched down in the Utah desert. Scientists hope that this material could…
NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters
[ad_1] NASA completed its first-ever sample return mission from an asteroid today, with a science capsule containing material from an asteroid landing after having traveled on a 1.2 billion-mile journey…
Why asteroid Bennu samples are so important… in 83 seconds
[ad_1] A capsule carrying precious samples from asteroid Bennu landed on Earth on Sunday. Nasa scientists hope the material could give hints to how life here began. BBC Science editor…
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on earth after 7 year journey
[ad_1] The data gleaned by the space mission will likely help scientists with any asteroid-deflection efforts in the future. NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the…
Watch as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brings asteroid samples back to Earth
[ad_1] Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth — and now the agency knows…