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Consciousness Formed Before Life Itself, Scientists Say—And the Evidence Could Be in This Asteroid Sample
Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...
Lockheed Martin builds on 50 years of spaceflight perfection for Mars Sample Return
Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...
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Japan succeeds in rapid identification of rocks on asteroids using AI
A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...
Nasa And Esa Want To Bring Martian Rocks To Earth. Here's What Will Happen To The Samples Once They Get Here
A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4: Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them?
Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...
See what the asteroid that we thought might hit Earth looks like
This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...
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Flandrau: 50 years of connecting Tucson to outer space
Pat Parris explores 50 years of the Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, and tells us what makes it Absolutely Arizona.
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Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here
John Bridges of Space Park Leicester, University of Leicester is funded by the European Space Agency and UK Space Agency to design and build isolator, spectroscopic and portable technology for ...