NASA's Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity Almost Failed.
The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...
Asteroid Mining Is the Path to a ‘Shitload of Money,’ Astroforge CEO Says
AstroForge’s CEO Matt Gialich wants to mine asteroids for platinum, aiming to turn space’s untapped wealth into a new ...
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How Deep Did OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft's Arm 'Plunge' Into Asteroid Bennu?
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
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Earth sure looks spooky in these 'hyperspectral' images from Europe's Hera asteroid probe
The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our planet ...
Apophis: a new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth
Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...
Skyscraper-sized asteroid and 4 others speed past Earth on the same day
Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...
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Bennu asteroid samples get close-up look at Brown for clues into life’s origin
Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...
NASA Warns A Bus-Sized Asteroid Will Skip Past Earth This Week
The asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across and will come closer to Earth than the moon.
A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
D: Iron in the ocean (from the ocean circulation, from the impactor itself, and from erosion), along with nutrients (like ...
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NASA’s New Edition of Graphic Novel Features Europa Clipper
NASA has released a new edition of Issue 4 of the Astrobiology Graphic History series. The issue now includes NASA's Europa ...
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Cubesats on Europe's Hera asteroid mission phone home after Oct. 7 launch
During this cubesat commissioning, we have not only confirmed the cubesat instruments and systems work as planned, but also validated the entire ground command infrastructure.' ...
Fact Check: Did NASA Confirm the 'End of the World' Date?
The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking predicted our planet's demise by 2600. Does NASA agree with him?