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But that’s not all it did. The plan all along has been for Hayabusa2 to retrieve samples of the diamond-shaped asteroid in order to bring them back to Earth, but snatching a sample isn’t as ...

An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

Its origins are “shrouded in mystery” and it is thought to have been created either from a “meteoric impact or having actually emerged from a diamond-bearing asteroid that collided with ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat ...

SPACE (KXAN) — We’re seven years away from a possible asteroid impact on Earth. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-43 chance of striking the Earth and is the size of Cinderella’s Castle at ...

Diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth ... there’s another allotrope—first identified in 1967 when scientists examining a meteorite in Canyon Diablo, Arizona—known today as lonsdaleite.

Chinese scientists have created an artificial “super diamond” much greater in hardness ... the hardest diamonds known have been found only in asteroid and meteoroid impact craters.

Since now, the hardest diamonds known have been found only in asteroid and meteoroid impact craters (Credits: Charles O’Rear/Getty Images) The ‘super diamond’ structure exhibits high ...