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 ...
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 ...
The spacecraft that successfully dropped off asteroid gravel and soil on Sunday is on its way to its next asteroid destination, Apophis. Credit: University of Arizona illustration As NASA ...
A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the first time that humanity sent a spacecraft to measurably change the orbit of a celestial body. The mission was also the world’s first full-scale ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
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 ...
In a historic special delivery spanning seven years and 4 billion miles, an estimated half-pound of rocks from a distant asteroid successfully parachuted into a Utah desert site Sunday morning and ...
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