Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries

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Monika Luabeya Mar 17, 2026 These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans released on March 17, 2026, give us a glimpse inside asteroid Bennu. They show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples; these networks solved a mystery that baffled NASA for years. When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first approached asteroid Bennu in 2018, scientists expected to see smoothContinue Reading

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Number of ships transiting Strait of Hormuz has nearly doubled in recent days, maritime intelligence company says., The number of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz has nearly doubled in recent days, a maritime intelligence company says. Iran is allowing a small but growing number of commercial ships to pass through theContinue Reading

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Ukraine President Zelenskyy says Moscow, Tehran ‘brothers in hatred’; claims Iran’s drones ‘contain Russian components’., Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says Moscow and Tehran are ‘brothers in hatred’; claims Iran’s drones ‘contain Russian components’. More than 200 Ukrainian military experts are in the Gulf region and wider Middle East helping governments inContinue Reading

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Mozilla has announced that a free, built-in VPN is coming to Firefox later this month. Firefox’s free VPN will offer 50 gigabytes of monthly data, which is pretty generous for a browser-based VPN. A Mozilla account is required to make use of it, which isn’t a hardship (they’re free), butContinue Reading

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Israel Says It Killed Iran’s Security Chief Ali Larijani and Commander of Basij Paramilitaries, Iran Says Infant, Toddler, Mother and Grandmother Among Latest Victims of U.S.-Israeli Strikes, Rocket from Lebanon Injures 7 in Northern Israel as Iranian Drone Damages Jerusalem Holy Sites, Baghdad’s Green Zone, UAE Oil Field Among MideastContinue Reading

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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 5:3src p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 19 to highlight plans for its X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft’s upcoming flight tests. The teleconference is set to take place after the X-59 is scheduled to complete its second flight, in California. For the media call…Continue Reading