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[ad_1] A capsule containing pristine asteroid samples will open a trail to Earth on Saturday morning, US time. JAXA The Japanese space agency JAXA is preparation for the return of samples collected by asteroid Ryugu by the intrepid Hayabusa2 probe expertly designed. The spacecraft’s sample collection capsule will land near …

[ad_1] An object, discovered in September by astronomers looking for asteroids near Earth, sparked interest in the planetary scientific community due to its size and unusual orbit. Using data collected at NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and orbit analysis by the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA’s Jet …

[ad_1] All eyes remain on the giant iceberg A-68A as it travels across the Southern Ocean. This image shows the A-68A’s movements over the past 15 days using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 missions. Since its ‘inception’ in 2017, the iceberg has traveled thousands of kilometers from the …

[ad_1] In a corner of the Riga Technical University campus, a team of scientists is working on a technology that could one day stop asteroids from crashing to Earth. High-precision hand-built timers in the laboratory of Latvian start-up Eventech are currently being used to track satellites. This year, the company …

[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – A mysterious object in temporary orbit around the Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, after all it’s not an asteroid, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations from a telescope in Hawaii confirmed his identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The object was classified as …

[ad_1] The discovery can greatly accelerate the discovery of new drugs BL PREMIUM 03 December 2020 – 05:08 Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan London – DeepMind, the UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) company owned by Alphabet, said it could predict the structure of proteins, a step forward that could greatly accelerate the discovery of …

[ad_1] The latest Chinese lunar probe has finished collecting samples of the lunar surface and sealed them inside the spacecraft for its return to Earth. The Chang’e 5, the third Chinese probe to land on the moon, is the latest in a series of increasingly ambitious missions for the Beijing …

[ad_1] by Dr Lorin Bradbury Question: What is the difference between anxiety and depression? Mental health diagnoses aren’t as simple as reading a throat culture or identifying a bacterium or virus. As we describe syndromes in the field of mental health, many disorders have a great deal of overlap, which …

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[ad_1] A team of scientists is developing technology to help avoid a nightmare, in the form of a high-precision timer: a precipitating asteroid streaks the Earth’s surface, endangering humanity. AFP. This is purely a precaution, but some may say that there is always a danger. Related: What is the potential …