A Possible Lunar Impact in 2032 Could Spark Days of Meteor Showers on Earth

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.
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NASA’s Bennu mission uncovered a surprise nobody saw coming

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...
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A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...
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NASA’s Bennu mission found something no one predicted

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft didn’t just collect rocks from asteroid Bennu — it brought back samples that are rewriting our ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4's collision with the moon could create a flash visible from Earth, study finds

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...
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This Rock Found in the Desert Contains Matter Older Than the Sun, and It’s Not from Earth

A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...

As Rubin's survey gets underway, simulations suggest it could find about six lunar-origin asteroids per year

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Program: Asteroids brought building blocks of life to Earth?

Samples of asteroids contain a range of organic molecules. Do asteroids raining down on Earth explain how life started on ...

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Stardust: The NASA Mission That Brought Back Particles From "The Very Origins Of The Solar System"

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...
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Scientists discover essential sugars in asteroid samples from NASA mission

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Scientists have discovered six different sugars in samples collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, including glucose and ribose that are fundamental for ...