NASA is contemplating an ambitious plan to destroy asteroid 2024 YR4, a city-block-sized rock with a 4% chance of impacting ...

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An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter has been named after Astrid Eeuwes, a 45-year-old amateur astronomer from Nijmegen who studies micrometeorites collected from roofs and streets. The 1.5km ...

Scientists studying South Korea’s only confirmed impact crater have discovered microbial structures beneath the ...

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South Korean researchers discovered more than 20 oxygen-producing stromatolites inside the Hapcheon impact crater, the first direct evidence that post-impact hydrothermal lakes incubated microbial lif ...

Researchers in South Korea found ancient stromatolites inside an asteroid impact crater, pointing to a surprising link between asteroid collisions and early life on Earth. Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has sent back a few of the prettiest pictures of Mars seen in years. On its big trip through wide space, the ship flew very close to the Red Planet and took bright blue ...

What did a Tohoku University-led team discover in Hokkaido? A) A fossil bed containing the last surviving dinosaurs in ...

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NASA’s new electric propulsion engine set a U.S. power record and could transform future Mars missions. The thrusters use ...