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Some of Earth’s Water May Have Come From the Sun, Scientists Find
Evoking images of the Sun shouldn’t normally make you think of water. After all, it’s a giant hot…
Astronomers Imaged 42 of Our System’s Largest Main-Belt Asteroids
Our planet’s past inhabitants were well-aware of just how dangerous space can be to any organisms here on…
Earth’s Oxygen Took a While to Settle In—And We May Have Asteroids to Blame For It
We might take the oxygen in our planet’s atmosphere for granted now, but it certainly wasn’t always there.…
NASA Set to Attempt “Asteroid Redirection” With DART
One of the constant threats to humanity’s survival is the looming presence of Solar System bodies which are…
A Bronze-Age City May Have Been Destroyed By an Exploding Asteroid
3,600 years ago, in a city sitting 11.3 km (7 mi) northeast of the Dead Sea in what…
What Do We Do When an Asteroid Is Headed Our Way?
Derek Muller of Veritasium interviews leading experts on asteroid to know exactly what they are, and if we…