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Astronomers Use JWST To Study a Rare Asteroid-Comet Hybrid Named “Chiron”
Discover how probing the components of the half-asteroid, half-comet hybrids reveals that carbon dioxide was present during ...
Animals Around The Globe on MSN1d
Second Asteroid From West Africa May Have Killed The Dinosaurs
For decades, scientists believed a single asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. However, recent research has sparked discussions ...
Space on MSN4d
Asteroid-comet chimera Chiron has an unusual ice mix, James Webb Space Telescope finds
An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...
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'Like nothing we've seen before': James Webb telescope spies a mysterious asteroid-comet hybrid lurking past Jupiter
The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual ...
Lab work digs into gullies seen on giant asteroid Vesta by NASA's Dawn
Pocked with craters, the surfaces of many celestial bodies in our solar system provide clear evidence of a 4.6-billion-year ...
From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
From exploring the Moon to revealing mysteries of the solar system, space agencies around the world are gearing up for an ...
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Asteroid Vesta found to have channels that look like water-made gullies
When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited the giant asteroid Vesta, it discovered intriguing channels on the rocky surface, ...
'Christmas Eve Asteroid' To Pass Closest To Earth At This Time, NASA Confirms
XN1, nicknamed the "Christmas Eve asteroid," will pass Earth at a speed of 14,743 mph on December 24, reaching its closest ...
Christmas Eve asteroid the size of a 10-floor building makes ‘close approach’ to Earth tonight
While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...
Astronomy on MSN4d
How do spacecraft avoid collisions in the asteroid belt?
The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated that spacecraft pass through as though ...
Live Science on MSN5h
Meteorite From A 4.5 Billion Year Old Asteroid Holds 2,600 Compounds
Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.
Asteroid or comet? Scientists find ancient ice giant in our solar system
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied Chiron, a centaur orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune, ...