Space
Asteroid Ryugu is so dry we may have to rethink how Earth got water
The first results from Japan鈥檚 Hayabusa-2 mission show that the asteroid Ryugu is surprisingly dry, which may have implications for how life began on Earth
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Physics
Huge meteor explosion over Earth last year went unnoticed until now
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Space
Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy
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Space
Space exploration needs minnows as much as superpowers
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Space
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 may finally kick-start the asteroid mining era
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Space
Interstellar 鈥極umuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe
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Space
Here’s how we could turn an asteroid into a space station
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Space
Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth
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Thousands of Elite Dangerous players embark on epic space voyage
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NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we鈥檝e ever visited
In 2015, NASA鈥檚 New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto. Now it is about to arrive at Ultima Thule, a tiny space rock 6.6 billion kilometres away from Earth
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First close-up look shows asteroid Bennu is a holey watery world
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Interstellar asteroid 鈥極umuamua slipped by NASA space telescope unseen
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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu
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Third lander arrives on asteroid Ryugu with only 16 hours to live
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