NASA Brings Home Asteroid Sample Swiped by Osiris-Rex Spacecraft
For the first time, NASA has returned some dust and other bits of an asteroid collected in space to Earth for study. Pieces of a large asteroid named Bennu were jarred…
NASA capsule brings sample from asteroid to Earth for the first time in American history: ‘We have touchdown!’
For the first time in U.S. history, samples from an asteroid in deep space that were captured by NASA fell to Earth and landed in the Utah desert on Sunday,…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex to Deliver Asteroid Sample to Earth on Sunday
Some dust and other bits of a big asteroid named Bennu are on the way to Earth. NASA’s Osiris-Rex is winding down its mission more than seven years after launching from Cape Canaveral,…
NASA’s New Moon Mosaic Lets You Peer Deep Into Shackleton Crater
We’re seeing the moon in a new light. A fresh NASA mosaic view of the lunar south pole region highlights a scenic crater and gives us a look at a…
Next Launch of SpaceX Starship Faces More Potential Delays
While the Federal Aviation Administration has been working closely with SpaceX to approve the next launch of Starship, a required environmental review by a different federal agency could keep the…
NASA’s Osiris-Rex Prepares to Return Asteroid Sample it Swiped in Space
A pick-pocketed piece of a big asteroid named Bennu is on its way back to Earth. NASA’s Osiris-Rex is winding down its mission more than seven years after launching from Cape Canaveral,…
Soyuz docks at International Space Station with two Russians, one American
A Russian spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American docked at the International Space Station on Friday after blasting off from Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg…
NASA appoints new director of UFO research in push to examine ‘one of our planet’s greatest mysteries’
NASA announced Thursday it has appointed a new director of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) research in an effort by the space agency to better understand what it describes as “one…
Giant SpaceX Starship Could Fly Again in October
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is optimistic that SpaceX’s Starship could blast off from Texas again as soon as next month. “We’re working well with them and have been in…
Jupiter’s Moon Callisto Has a Whole Lot of Oxygen Scientists Struggle to Explain
Jupiter’s four largest moons are some of the solar system’s most compelling worlds. Io is dotted with active volcanoes, and Europa hides a subsurface ocean many want to check for alien…