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The jackpot from a seven-year mission to bring back bits of an asteroid was unveiled on Wednesday. From a report: NASA officials in Houston displayed images of salt-and-pepper chunks of rock and particles of dark space dust that were brought back to Ea…
Partial eclipse, set to occur before a total solar eclipse in April, will be visible to those in path between Oregon and TexasResidents in and visitors to the Americas can expect to witness two rare celestial events over the next several months, beginn…
The luxury fashion brand announced a collaboration with Axiom Space to outfit astronauts for the 2025 mission to the moonPrada will take its designs to the next atmospheric level as the Italian fashion house announced its latest partnership with Axiom …
Jonathan Josephs & Antoinette Radford reporting via the BBC: Nasa astronauts will be flying in style, with luxury fashion designer Prada helping design space suits for the 2025 moon mission. The Italian fashion house will work to design the suits a…
We have discovered a lot in this universe. Planets that orbit stars at right angles. Forbidden worlds that have cheated death. Space explosions that defy explanation. Yet the cosmos continues to surprise us. The latest spectacle, observed by the James …
Mike Wall writes via Space.com: OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid-sample canister just creaked open for the first time in more than seven years. Scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston lifted the canister’s outer lid on Tuesday (Sept. 26), two d…
Fifty-four-year-old ISRO is not only the world’s most cost-effective agency but it is also fast proving to be one of the most successful incubators of private space firmsFifty-four-year-old ISRO is not only the world’s most cost-effective agency but it is also fast proving to be one of the most successful incubators of private space firms Fifty-four-year-old ISRO is not only the world’s most
OSIRIS-REx weighs 4,650 pounds (or 2,110 kg). On September 8th of 2016, NASA first launched the spacecraft on its 3.8-billion mile mission to land on an asteroid and retrieve a sample.
That sample has just returned.
Throughout Sunday morning, NASA t…
Return of the largest asteroid sample ever to be recovered marks the culmination of a seven-year journey Sitting isolated in the arid landscape of the Utah desert, its orange and white parachute cast aside, the Osiris-Rex capsule was a picture of still…
The blog is now closed, but you can read the full story about the successful Osiris-Rex sample touchdown hereAnother hope is that by studying the samples from Bennu, scientists can compare their results against the data they obtained from instruments o…