NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.
A tiny fragment from the most dangerous asteroid in the solar system has arrived in the U.K. — and scientists think it could ...
"It was sort of the Goldilocks effect — this one was too big, that one was a little too small and they found one that was just right." A sizable crowd turned out to see a small rock on Friday ...
Physicist Jennifer Inman has observed the aerodynamics of many spacecraft, including NASA’s space shuttles, as they launched and landed. But on 24 September she had the chance to study a rarity ...
In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken ...
Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...
The sample of the space rock Bennu that OSIRIS-REx collected could unlock an ancient existential mystery Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That" The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to ...
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‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...
IN a hushed room of a museum in Washington DC, cameras and cellphones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample ...
In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken ...
