After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid ...
The country’s first pristine asteroid sample — protected by a heat shield invented in Silicon Valley — landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert Sunday morning, where it was greeted by a ...
OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...
Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...
A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...
In Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock), a group of students and parents arrive at the titular fictional ...
This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...
A large asteroid as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passed by the Earth recently – and scientists didn't even see it coming. Dubbed 2021 SG, according to the NASA-backed International ...
Earth just got a special delivery: Pieces of an ancient asteroid that were snagged straight from the source and dropped off in the western Utah desert. After traveling through space for nearly ...
The last time that a human set foot on the Moon, it was December 1972 — when the crew of the Apollo 17 mission spent a few days on the surface before returning to Earth. Since then only unmanned ...
Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...
The country’s first pristine asteroid sample — protected by a heat shield invented in Silicon Valley — landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert Sunday morning, where it was greeted by a ...
