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Where did Earth's water come from? This ancient asteroid family may help us find out
SPACE.com· 5 days agoA family of primitive asteroids is providing astronomers with a window into the past as they seek to...
Scientists reveal the only animal likely to survive the end of the world
UNILAD· 22 minutes agoResearchers from the University of Oxford and Harvard University were able to narrow down the...
How the perils of space have affected asteroid Ryugu
Ars Technica· 1 day agoAn asteroid that has been wandering through space for billions of years is going to have been bombarded by everything from rocks to radiation. Billions...
Mars might have an asteroid problem
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDespite the observational challenges, astronomers have discovered over 26,000 Mars-crossing asteroids from here on Earth, mostly on the larger end of the...
A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
Salon.com· 4 days agoAs Andy Rivkin, one of the team leaders, was getting ready to appear in NASA’s live broadcast of the...
The Sky This Week from May 17 to 24: The Moon visits Antares
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoThe Moon occults two bright stars along the ecliptic as we also enjoy comets, asteroids, and star...
A massive, icy Mars crater stares up at a Red Planet orbiter (image)
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"This remnant of an ancient impact is just one of the many scarsasteroids have inflicted upon the...
New view shows the largest impact crater on Mars surface
Houston Chronicle· 3 days agoA spacecraft recently captured a new vantage point of a massive crater on the Martian surface. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's (TGO) CaSSIS (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) instrument ...
Why we're one step closer to understanding how Earth got its oceans (op-ed)
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoEarth may have gotten some of its water from 'dark comets,' and the forthcoming Vera C. Rubin...
Mars craters pop in new images from ExoMars
EarthSky· 1 day agoThe terrain of Mars has pockmarks and ripples from a variety of forces: asteroid collisions, volcanoes, wind erosion, and the movement of water and ice.
