This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
On Monday, the comet was at perihelion ... Dusty samples had been scooped up from surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020.
By Robin George Andrews Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... as well as a comet’s closest approach to the sun.
Scientists stress more testing is needed to better understand the Bennu samples, as well as more asteroid and comet sample returns. China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year.
"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...