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Mapping Asteroid Psyche Reveals Its Turbulent Past
While awaiting the launch of NASA’s Psyche probe, a team of planetary scientists have drawn up detailed maps of the physical properties of the asteroid’s surface, revealing a heterogeneous body,…
Asteroid Ryugu has the essential ingredients for life
In 2019, nearly 200 million kilometers from our Earth, a Japanese probe – the Hayabusa-2 probe – landed on a asteroid to collect some samples. Just over five grams in…
Ingredients of life found on an asteroid
In 2019, nearly 200 million kilometers from our Earth, a Japanese probe – the Hayabusa-2 probe – landed on a asteroid to collect some samples. Just over five grams in…
Asteroid gravel contains important building blocks
previous full screen Next Gravel from the asteroid Ryugu, photographed under a microscope. Stock Photography. 1 of 2Photo: Japan’s space agency Jaxa via AP / TT Scientists have found amino…
The largest body in the asteroid belt was born elsewhere
Discovered in 1801 by theastronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, Ceres is a celestial body almost 1,000 kilometers in diameter located in the main belt, between the orbits of March and Jupiter. Overflown…
The extinction of humanity by the impact of a giant asteroid is a realistic hypothesis
Explore the interviews of researchers, photographers, travelers witnessing a world that is changing under the yoke of global warming. 65 million years ago, a collision between the Earth and an…
NASA is sending a probe to Apophis, the potentially dangerous asteroid that will pass Earth in 2029
Apophis, which will pass just 32,000 kilometers from Earth in April 2029 — Friday the 13th to be precise — will be visited by a space probe. NASA has decided…
China will try to deflect an asteroid in 2025
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How a giant asteroid impact changed the face of the Moon
A new study of craters on the surface of the Moon tends to associate the asymmetry between the two lunar faces with a massive meteorite impact at the level of…
What will happen to the giant asteroid Apophis when it skims Earth in 2029?
Apophis. It was discovered in June 2004. A asteroid some 350 meters and about 27 million tons. And for a few weeks, the scientific community had been worried about a…