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Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Images of the four new asteroids (#113, #109 ... "We have already been able to detect near-Earth objects measuring up to 10 meters (33 feet) when they were very close to us," explains Artem Burdanov. ...

Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images of asteroid ... "If water-rich asteroids were commonly producing ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

How close will it get ... This helps scientists predict when asteroids might come near Earth in the future and come up with ways to protect our planet. Why is asteroid monitoring important?

Space agency officials have announced a newly-discovered asteroid has a slight chance of colliding with Earth in 2032.

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

When a quick online search turned up the University of Alberta’s meteorite collection, the couple reached out, sending along some photos ... broken pieces off of asteroids in the asteroid ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...