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Auction of world's largest Mars meteorite sparks ownership debate
AFP, Published on 13/08/2025
» WASHINGTON - The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen from the heavens.
Earth's satellites at risk if asteroid smashes into Moon: study
AFP, Published on 23/06/2025
» PARIS - If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to researchers.
New T-Rex ancestor discovered in drawers of Mongolian institute
AFP, Published on 12/06/2025
» PARIS - Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of a Mongolian institute for 50 years belong to a new species of tyrannosaur that rewrites the family history of the mighty T-Rex, scientists said on Wednesday.
Pesticides causing widespread harm to animals and plants: study
AFP, Published on 13/02/2025
» PARIS - Pesticides are significantly harming wildlife across the planet, stunting growth, damaging reproduction and even causing behavioural changes in animals not meant to be targeted, according to a large-scale study published on Thursday.
Life's 'basic building blocks' found in asteroid samples
AFP, Published on 30/01/2025
» PARIS — Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how life began on our planet.
Japan celebrates successful lunar landing
Reuters, Published on 20/01/2024
» TOKYO - Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the mission to prove “precision” landing technology and revitalise a space programme that has suffered setbacks.
Feline frontier: NASA sends HD cat video from deep space
AFP, Published on 19/12/2023
» WASHINGTON - NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 31 million kilometres from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video.
Asteroid dust caused 15-year winter that killed dinosaurs
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» PARIS - Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest smashed into Earth, killing off three quarters of all life on the planet -- including the dinosaurs.
NASA set to journey to a metal-rich asteroid
AFP, Published on 13/10/2023
» KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (UNITED STATES) - It's a world like no other: a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps an entirely new type of celestial body unknown to science.
NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon
AFP, Published on 12/10/2023
» HOUSTON - A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space.