But the origins of life on our planet remains one of the great mysteries of science. Now, a mission by NASA to collect a piece of ancient asteroid and bring it back to Earth has revealed that the ...

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A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

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