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Friday, September 5, 2025
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Topic: asteroids

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

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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

Mohana Basu -
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

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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

Mohana Basu -
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

Sandhya Ramesh -
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

Mohana Basu -
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

Sandhya Ramesh -
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

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

An asteroid might be the reason why Earth has water

Monica Grady -
A new study published in Science Advances suggests that the solar system is probably a lot wetter than had previously been thought.

Giant asteroid has gold worth $700 quintillion. But it won’t make us richer

Noah Smith -
Asteroid 16 Psyche has enough gold to give everyone on Earth $93 billion. But it won’t remain precious if it hits the markets in large quantities.
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