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NASA approves spacecraft for asteroid trip ET

NASA has approved the design of a new spacecraft for its ambitious mission to collect the first ever samples from an asteroid in 2018.

NASA's asteroid hunt offers $35,000 to citizen scientists ET

Good news for amateur astronomers! NASA is offering $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids.

Jupiter may have once migrated closer to the Sun: Scientists ET

MIT scientists have developed a map of more than 100,000 asteroids throughout the solar system which suggests that Jupiter may have once drifted much closer to the Sun.

Interplanetary dust jump-started life on Earth? ET


A Chancy Survival ET

The fact that 65 million years ago all the dinosaurs got wiped out in an analogous asteroidal impact doesn’t really matter to us today because those animals didn’t have a flourishing culture, civilisation and a system of values or ethical standards they lived by.

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Microbes caused Earth's biggest extinction 250 mln years ago ET

The reason for the sudden growth of the microbes may have been their ability to use a source of organic carbon, aided by a sudden influx of a nutrient.

China has ability to explore Mars: Report ET

China has the ability to explore Mars and it is up to the government to decide when to send a probe to land on the Red Planet's surface.

NASA to launch five Earth science missions in 2014 ET



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