Deux nouvelles études montrent qu’un environnement saumâtre et riche en carbone sur l’ancêtre de l’astéroïde Bennu était propice à l’assemblage d’éléments constitutifs de la vie.
- Director, Binar Space Program, Curtin University
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling the building blocks of life.
In Australia, space defence gets billions of dollars in funding, and commercial projects get hundreds of millions. Space science gets only $2 million a year.
Tiny pieces of an asteroid have revealed an unlikely origin for much of the water in Earth’s oceans.
It’s no easy task to find a meteorite that’s just been seen flashing across the sky. But it helps if you have an automatic network of “eyes” on the night sky.
Now that we have discovered liquid water on the surface of Mars, what does this mean for the prospects of finding life there, past or present?
A fireball has flown over Russia, delivering a sonic boom with enough force to shatter windows, amateur footage shows. The astronomical event comes just one day before a large asteroid is expected to pass…
An asteroid expected to hurtle past Earth next week will fly within range of communication satellites but will not hit the planet, experts said today. Known as 2012 DA14, the asteroid is around 45m in…
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