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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
TopicAsteroids

Topic: asteroids

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft returns samples of asteroid Ryugu to Earth

Samples of both surface dust and material from below the surface of asteroid Ryugu were collected. These are likely to give insights into the evolution of our solar system.

Indian Ocean once had world’s most continuously-active volcanic province, find scientists

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Fossils found in Antarctica in 1980s belong to ‘giant, bony-toothed’ birds from 2.5m yrs ago

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

In first-ever cosmic game of ‘TAG’, NASA probe successfully touches asteroid to collect samples

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring back the rock samples from ancient asteroid Bennu by 2023, which will allow scientists to learn more about the ancient solar system.

2 IIT Bombay students discovered the asteroid that flew closest to Earth

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Great Barrier Reef faces third bleaching event & world’s oldest salamander in Siberia

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

Earth’s oldest-known impact crater, formed 2.23 bn yrs ago, is in Australia: Geologists

The crater is in Yarrabubba in Western Australia. Scientists speculate the impact could have helped bring the Earth out of the ice age.

Slum boy to start-up founder — 19-yr-old to now help govt build astronomy labs in schools

Aryan Mishra, who discovered an asteroid 5 years ago, builds low-cost labs in schools. His efforts recently caught the government's attention.

An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter could be a new dwarf planet

The asteroid, named Hygiea, is the fourth largest asteroid that likely originated two billion years ago. 

An asteroid just whizzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time

The asteroid, labelled 2019 OK, is about the size of a large airplane. Had it hit, it could have wiped out an entire city.

On Camera

Make Sanchar Saathi removable. Good intentions don’t excuse State overreach

Compulsion magnifies the risk of function creep. Future updates could quietly expand the app’s capabilities or enable background telemetry far beyond users’ expectations.

New cess on ‘pan masala’ to fund national security and healthcare programmes

The Health Security Se National Security Cess Bill, 2025, explained. Oppn has attacked the proposed cess as 'a new financial burden' on the citizens.

After Op Sindoor, India goes in for more Heron Mk IIs; Israel frontrunner for mega MALE drones deal

Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.

Gaali cricket: Bavuma stands tall, India’s Test ego cut to size

The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.