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Asteroid speck at the Field Museum could hold the key to life
Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...
Unique asteroid sample lands at the Field Museum
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
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Space rock from asteroid Bennu arrives at Chicago Field Museum for rare study
The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, untouched for 4.6 billion years. Scientists will study the carbon- and ...
Tiny fragment of asteroid giving Field Museum scientists a glimpse 4.6 billion years into the past
The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...
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Chicago's Field Museum receives rare asteroid sample
WBBM’s Carolina Garibay visits the Field Museum to meet researchers who will be studying a more than 40 million-year-old ...
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June 2025: What’s in the sky this month? Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Mercury meets with Jupiter in the evening
Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...