Bennu was the target of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which aimed to collect an asteroid sample and bring it back to Earth. The spacecraft successfully returned last fall, landing in Utah with about 120 ...
In a discreet vacuumed-packed container inside a FedEx box lies a piece of ancient history; extremely ancient history.
United Airlines Jet Makes Unscheduled Landing in Florida After a Passenger Fights With a Crew Member ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A United Airlines jet from Miami to New Jersey made an unscheduled ...
An asteroid is whipping past Earth today, travelling at more than 40,000 miles per hour. NASA says the asteroid will pass just 936,000 miles away from Earth, a relatively close-shave in space terms.
The first space rock, asteroid 2011 UL21, passed by Earth on June 27 at a distance of 4.1 million miles (6.6 million kilometers), or 17 times the distance between Earth and the moon. Researchers ...
A year ago, history was made with the return of humanity’s first asteroid samples collected by NASA. The capsule containing this precious material from Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old carbonaceous rock, ...
Yes, one of these is most assuredly not like the others and some folks may not even know that the Defense Department’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah’s west desert has become a prime landing location .
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah. It took a while to remove the lid from the sample ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off its sample of rocks and dirt collected from the primitive asteroid last year in the desert of Utah. It took a while to remove the lid from the sample canister ...