Asteroid

Could a nuke save us from a killer asteroid? Scientists create simulations showing what would happen if a nuclear bomb exploded on a space rock barreling toward Earth

Could a nuke save us from a killer asteroid? Scientists create simulations showing what would happen if a nuclear bomb exploded on a space rock barreling toward Earth

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com 22:55 22 Dec 2023, updated 22:55 22 Dec 2023 The team used an AI-powered simulation to see ...

NASA moves one step closer to answering human origin story as they study asteroid that may carry the building blocks of life

NASA moves one step closer to answering human origin story as they study asteroid that may carry the building blocks of life

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

Early results suggest that the giant asteroid carries water and organic molecules The sample contained a material that the lead scientist hasn’t ...

NASA’s Psyche captures its “first light,” continues testing other instruments

NASA’s Psyche captures its “first light,” continues testing other instruments

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

15 On Dec. 4, the cameras of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft took their first images 26 million kilometers away from Earth. This milestone, ...

Colossal cryovolcanic comet headed towards Earth explodes again • Earth.com

Colossal cryovolcanic comet headed towards Earth explodes again • Earth.com

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The colossal, cryovolcanic “devil comet,” three times larger than Mount Everest, has experienced yet another explosive event as it makes its way ...

Bennu Asteroid Samples May ‘Fundamentally’ Shift Views of Life

Bennu Asteroid Samples May ‘Fundamentally’ Shift Views of Life

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

We’ve all been there: You’re getting some peanut butter, or looking to nosh a nice pickle, when you find your wrist strength ...

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Successfully Completes First Asteroid Flyby

NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Successfully Completes First Asteroid Flyby

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

NASA’s Lucy mission, which launched on October 16, 2021, for the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting ...

Asteroid Orbiting Earth Is A Chunk Of The Moon, Says New Study

Asteroid Orbiting Earth Is A Chunk Of The Moon, Says New Study

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Dr. Thomas Hughes

The scientists will carry out mor research on the space object. A near-Earth asteroid orbiting our planet is actually a piece of ...