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Astronaut Luca Parmitano places biomining reactors into a centrifuge onboard the International Space Station. Credit: European Space Agency The first mining experiments conducted in space…
This image shows four views of asteroid Bennu along with a corresponding global mosaic. The images were taken on December 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx…
[embedded content] This is what it looks like to punch an asteroid. Last month, NASA’s robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx descended toward, thumped into, and then quickly…
This image shows a triple crater in the ancient martian highlands. The largest crater measures 45 km across, and the smallest 28 km. There are…
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, are two of the most well-known residents of the Kuiper Belt. This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto…
Figure 1. The difference between the pre-impact surface DEM and the post-impact surface DEM around the SCI impact point. The color scale indicates the height…
Fireball meteorite illustration. On the night of January 16, 2018, a fireball meteor streaked across the sky over the Midwest and Ontario before landing on…
The massive asteroid 16 Psyche is the subject of a new study by SwRI scientist Tracy Becker, who observed the object at ultraviolet wavelengths. Credit:…
This illustration shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stowing the sample it collected from asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020. The spacecraft will use its Touch-And-Go Sample…
This series of images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows Bennu in one full rotation from a distance of around 50 miles (80 km). The…
Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on October 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission readies itself to touch the surface of asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer…
OSIRIS-REx at Sample Site Nightingale. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG”…
This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 PolyCam images collected on December 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of…
Surface-level view of OSIRIS-REx at sample site Nightingale, with a parking lot for comparison. Credit: NASA/Goddard/CI Lab/University of Arizona NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission…
Ryugu is approximately 1 kilometer wide and weighs 450 million tons. Credit: © JAXA/UTokyo/Kochi U/Rikkyo U/Nagoya U/Chiba Inst Tech/Meiji U/U Aizu/AIST Researchers find evidence that…
Banner image: Artist’s depiction of the twin Janus spacecraft. Credit: Lockheed Martin CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture…
The Earth is the only planet known to have liquid water on its surface, a fundamental characteristic when it comes to explaining the emergence of…
A new study published in Science finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA NASA’s first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The…
