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The Murchison meteorite

Building blocks for life may be able to form in radioactive meteorites

7 December 2022

Amino acids have been found in meteorites, and now an experiment shows how they might have been created by chemical reactions in these space rocks
James Webb Space Telescope Artist Conception Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a tiny space rock – but it’s OK

8 June 2022

One of the mirrors of NASA’s huge new space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, was hit by a small space rock larger than anything tests on the ground involved

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