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NASA has spent decades obsessed with asteroids and for good reason. These ancient space rocks aren’t just debris; they’re ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx risked everything to touch a cosmic relic, Bennu offered no guarantees only danger and possibility, years ...
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...
NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...
Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?
Over 80 researchers from more than a dozen institutions recently worked together to study such an “artificial meteor” – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule – as it reentered Earth ...
NASA has really speckled our corner of the cosmos with incredible feats of engineering. To this day, remnants of the historic Apollo lunar missions exist on the moon; the OSIRIS-REx probe recently ...