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Is an enormous shield the worst way to protect Earth from asteroids?
Protecting Earth from any big asteroid which may come our manner is difficult. If you…
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What would really happen if you landed on an asteroid?
Asteroids are far weirder than we had imagined – touchdown on one would not go…
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Absolutely enormous asteroid belt discovered around a nearby star
Fomalhaut, a star 25 gentle years away, hosts a particularly vast asteroid belt and one…
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Samples from asteroid Ryugu contain one of the building blocks of RNA
Samples from the asteroid Ryugu include uracil, one of many 4 constructing blocks of RNA,…
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Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark comets’ in disguise
Some asteroids might produce invisible jets of gasoline Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski Astronomers say they’ve discovered a…
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What we learned from NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission
The asteroid Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds earlier than impression NASA/Johns…