Forget The 3i/ATLAS - The Largest Comet Coming To Earth Could Hit In 2029 With A 'Mean' Diameter Of 1,115 Ft

While the internet has been buzzing over the mysterious 3i/Atlas, with some even speculating it could be an alien spacecraft ...
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Queen Legend Brian May Talks NASA Asteroid Mission Collaboration In Exclusive Interview

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...
Smithsonian Magazine

An Innovative Spacecraft Makes Contact With an Asteroid

A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission Diane Tedeschi Initially, your entire group was responsible for selecting the landing site. Ultimately, you ...
Purdue University

Planetary scientist decodes clues in Bennu’s surface composition to make sense of far-flung asteroids

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

NASA's returned asteroid samples reveal building blocks for life

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned with samples from Bennu in 2023. Bennu is a near-Earth asteroid. The samples contained the building blocks of life and provide more evidence that asteroids may ...
Seeking Alpha

OSIRIS-REx Sample Capsule Safely Touches Down with NASA's First-Ever Asteroid Sample

The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin (LMT) – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept. 24 ...
Gizmodo

Gizmodo Science Fair: A Clever Fix Rescued NASA’s Stuck Asteroid Samples

When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team. Reading time 5 minutes The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science ...