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.
Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...
Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
About 5-1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will streak ...
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 ...
