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First Chinese mission to sample an asteroid starts its journey
China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before making a final visit to a distant comet. Tianwen-2 blasted off from Xichang launch centre in southern China at 1:31AM Beijing time today.
ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also ...
Summer is almost underway across the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes the warmest weather and some of the most ...
A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...
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Asteroids hitting the Moon may have spiked its magnetic fieldA combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...
A team of scientists may finally have the answer. The study suggests that the moon’s magnetic rocks could be the result of a ...
There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...
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