NASA surprised to discover ‘dinky’ moon orbiting asteroid in close flyby
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, which was launched in October 2021 to research Jupiter’s asteroids, snapped a picture of a smaller asteroid…
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launches on first mission ever to a metal-rich asteroid
A NASA probe launched into space Friday on a 2.2-billion-mile journey to a huge, metal-rich space rock in the main…
NASA’s Psyche Mission Launches to Mysterious Metallic Asteroid
Deep in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, lies a strange, metal-rich asteroid unlike anything anyone has ever seen…
NASA’s Psyche Mission Launches to Mysterious Metallic Asteroid
Deep in the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, lies a strange, metal-rich asteroid unlike anything anyone has ever seen…
NASA unveils asteroid sample that could reveal details about life on Earth
NASA revealed Wednesday that newly returned samples from a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid contain traces of carbon and water — molecules that…
NASA Reveals Sneak Peek of Historic Asteroid Sample
It looks like Bennu was indeed the right target for NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample-return mission. That mission, OSIRIS-REx, delivered pieces…
NASA delays Psyche asteroid mission over spacecraft’s thrusters
NASA’s mission to investigate the metal-rich asteroid “Psyche” has been delayed over the spacecraft’s thrusters, the agency announced last week.…
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…
In a first, NASA returns asteroid samples to Earth
A capsule containing precious samples from an asteroid landed safely on Earth on Sunday, the culmination of a roughly 4-billion-mile…
OSIRIS-REx’s Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth
UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE–Yes, it came from outer space. An extraterrestrial express delivery package from afar has landed safe…