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China's Tianwen-2 captures first close-up image of Earth's quasi-moon ahead of historic sample mission- Earth's hidden ‘mini-moon’ revealed like never before: China’s Tianwen-2 captures first-ever close-up of Kamoʻoalewa, a mysterious asteroid that may be a lost piece of the Moon
- Mystery surrounding the Silverpit crater solved: 160-meter asteroid hit the North Sea 45 million years ago and triggered 330-foot tsunami waves, say scientists
- Flowering plants may have recruited dinosaurs long before birds or mammals, with hundreds of fossil fruits revealing an ancient seed-spreading strategyFossil discoveries in New Mexico reveal that flowering plants were producing large, animal-attracting fruits millions of years earlier than...26 Jun, 2026, 04.53 PM IST
- Scientists Thought This Ancient Ocean Floor Was Destroyed Forever: Until Hidden Rocks Revealed a Lost Piece of Earth’s Earliest CrustScientists have unearthed evidence of Earth's ancient oceanic crust, older than four billion years, hidden within modern continental rocks ...12 May, 2026, 07.10 PM IST
- NASA’s Bennu asteroid samples reveal building blocks of life, say scientistsScientists have discovered essential life-building compounds in dust from asteroid Bennu, supporting the theory that asteroids contributed ...30 Jan, 2025, 01.07 AM IST
- Secrets of life found by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission: Surprising findings from Bennu asteroid sampleNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed groundbreaking findings from the Bennu asteroid, uncovering key ingredients for life, including phos...29 Jun, 2024, 04.01 PM IST
- NASA's Bennu asteroid sample contains carbon, water. Did building blocks of life on Earth come from asteroids?NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected the sample from the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu in October 2020. It contains carbon and water m...11 Oct, 2023, 11.58 PM IST
- NASA to reveal images and analysis of historic asteroid sample today. How important is it?NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will ...11 Oct, 2023, 08.40 AM IST
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx set to return to Earth on Sep 24 with 1st-ever asteroid samplesNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is preparing to return to Earth on September 24 with the first-ever US asteroid sample. The spacecraft will deliv...25 Sep, 2023, 01.07 PM IST
- Capsule with NASA's first asteroid sample heads for Utah touchdownNASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is set to return to Earth on Sunday, bringing back the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid. Th...25 Sep, 2023, 11.41 AM IST
- NASA's Spacecraft to drop first-ever asteroid sample on Earth in Utah Desert | Where to watch & moreInitiated in 2016 and reaching asteroid Bennu in 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft embarked on an ambitious mission: to gather a sample of...24 Sep, 2023, 06.47 PM IST
- Researchers find building block of RNA, vitamin B3 in sample taken from near-Earth asteroid Ryugu; Details hereSamples obtained from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission have been found to contain organic molecules.22 Mar, 2023, 09.43 PM IST
- What has Japan's Hayabusa2 mission accomplished?Launched on Dec. 3, 2014, the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down twice on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometres (190...07 Dec, 2020, 05.34 PM IST
- Asteroid dust collected by Japan probe arrives on EarthScientists hope the precious samples, which are expected to amount to no more than 0.1 grams of material, could help shed light on the orig...06 Dec, 2020, 07.15 AM IST
- Japan awaits spacecraft return with asteroid soil samplesJapan's space agency said its final checks confirmed the Hayabusa2 spacecraft is on track to return to Earth a capsule containing samples f...05 Dec, 2020, 12.45 PM IST
- Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 approaches Earth to drop samples from asteroid RyuguThe spacecraft left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers (180 million miles) away, a year ago. The capsule is to be released 22...04 Dec, 2020, 06.23 PM IST
- Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears homeThe Hayabusa2 spacecraft left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers (180 million miles) from Earth, a year ago and is expected t...27 Nov, 2020, 05.07 PM IST
- NASA mission tests thrusters on journey to asteroidWashington, Oct 10 (IANS) The US space agency has successfully maneuvered its spacecraft on way to asteroid Bennu, fine-tuning its trajecto...10 Oct, 2016, 10.59 AM IST
- NASA building space shotgun to blast asteroidsNASA is developing shotgun that can blast asteroids into small pieces for collection as samples when robotic spacecraft reaches near such s...21 Sep, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
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