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Piece of pristine asteroid gives Field Museum scientists a look billions of years into the past
Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the ...
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 ...
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 ...
This is the asteroid that could crash into the Moon in 2032 and leave a crater visible from Earth
By February 2024, NASA had ruled out any Earth strike. The updated odds dropped to near zero, and 2024 YR4 was officially ...
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 ...
NASA astronomers say it's now 'more likely' asteroid YR4 could hit the Moon
As a result, the asteroid’s probability of impacting the Moon has slightly increased from 3.8% to 4.3%. In the small chance ...
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250-foot asteroid is zooming past Earth today—Should you worry?
NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.
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Asteroid's odds of hitting the Moon have now more than doubled
A 4.3 per cent of impact still counts as a 95.7 per cent chance that it will miss the Moon. So, with it having no chance of hitting Earth on that date, 2024 YR4 could simply slip through lunar orbit ...
NASA Warns Of 250-ft Building-Sized Asteroid Passing Earth Today At 45,529 KMPH: Should We Be Worried?
A massive 250-foot asteroid named 2015 XR1 is hurtling past Earth today at over 45,000 kilometres per hour., Science News - ...
NASA says there's higher chance Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit the Moon
An asteroid scientists feared would cause havoc by striking the Earth in the year 2032 now has an increased likelihood of ...
Yikes: We Just Crossed a Planetary Boundary 66 Million Years in the Making
Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...
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NASA Plucked an Asteroid From Space. Now Researchers at the Field Will Probe It for Signs of the Origin of Life
A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...