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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicAsteroids

Topic: asteroids

3 asteroid clans behind 70% of Earth’s meteorites & how Neanderthals may have craved carbs too

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Cosmic treasure! NASA’s asteroid sample that’s landed on Earth could hold clues to origin of life

US space agency's OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, dropped off capsule containing sample in Utah desert. Asteroid Bennu could potentially collide into Earth a few centuries later.

More evidence of ‘alien’ origins of life — Japan spacecraft finds RNA base on asteroid Ryugu

Bengaluru: The hypothesis that comets and asteroids deposited the building blocks of life on Earth millions of years ago has received yet another boost....

How are stars like Sun formed? James Webb Space Telescope images hold key to new investigations

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

‘Planet killer’ asteroid to soon cross Earth’s orbit, but poses no threat yet

Earth will be on the other side of the Sun when the deadly asteroid swings by; it can, however, catch up with our planet centuries in the future.

NASA’s DART mission successfully knocks asteroid off course, Earth can now defend itself

While the asteroid was of no threat to Earth, but the test demonstrated our capability to resist asteroid impact.

Scientists have found a mysterious deep-sea crater. A dino-killing asteroid could’ve made it

Named ‘Nadir’ after nearby volcano Nadir Seamount, the crater is as old as the Chicxulub impact, caused by a huge asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period.

‘Fluffy’ crab from Australia that wears sea sponge like a hat named after Darwin’s ship

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Sample from speeding asteroid shows its made of stuff similar to that which formed the Sun

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Earth has a second ‘Trojan’ asteroid, will share its orbit for next 4,000 years

Trojans are asteroids that share orbit with a planet. The second Earth Trojan was detected in 2020 and has been named 2020 XL5. The first had been found a decade earlier, in 2010.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.