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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
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‘Chemical time capsule’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts tell tale of early solar system
In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...
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'Habitable' planet circling sun discovered by scientists in huge breakthrough
"This planet could play a pivotal role in future missions... to search for biosignatures indicating potential life, " Dr.
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Trillions of comets discovered orbiting alien planet systems (image)
The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.
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Seven new dark comets discovered in our solar system
Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.
Breakthrough Discovery: Asteroid Fragments Reveal Ingredients For Life
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...
Astronomers Orbiting TRAPPIST-1 Star Could Be Peering Back At Earth
A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
'Super Earth': the exoplanet in the 'habitable zone' for alien life
An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...