Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 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 ...
