Watch NASA’s capsule with asteroid samples hurtling to Earth
NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid — a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the…
OSIRIS-REx mission returns asteroid sample to Earth in NASA first
NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this…
Watch Live as NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure…
Telescope Spots a Sample-Laden OSIRIS-REx Returning From Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a distant asteroid and bring back a sample of it. The…
How to watch final moments of NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission
OSIRIS-REx: 1st US Asteroid Sample Lands Soon (Official NASA Trailer) In just a few days from now, NASA will oversee the final moments of its groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission, which marks…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Adjusts Course Ahead of Historic Asteroid Sample Return
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface was created by combining two images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on January 19, 2019.Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin A…
Asteroid Displays Unexpected Behavior in Wake of NASA’s DART Strike
After the successful impact of NASA’s DART mission on the Dimorphos asteroid, scientists have encountered a series of unexpected outcomes, the latest being the unanticipated lengthening of the asteroid’s orbital…
Will Mining the Moon and Asteroids Be Worth the Trouble?
The new era of space exploration is opening entirely new possibilities, including the tantalizing prospect of mining for resources on the Moon and asteroids. Sounds exciting—and potentially very profitable—but the…
Ouch! Jupiter Just Got Smacked By an Unidentified Celestial Object
Jupiter’s south pole as captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/John Landino As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter is not one to play with. That doesn’t stop…
Researcher Proposes Space Umbrella Attached to Asteroid to Mitigate Climate Change
The solution for protecting the planet from some of the sun’s rays could be a space “umbrella.” A study published the scientific journal PNAS in June outlines a University of Hawai’i…