Pieces of a potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu will come barreling down to Earth on Sunday, landing in Utah, following a ...

Original article source: NASA prepares for all weather as OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample comes in for landing in Utah desert ...

The sample capsule will parachute into the Utah desert as its mothership, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft, zooms off for an encounter with another asteroid ... Sunday’s landing concludes a 4 billion ...

Now, after scrutinizing every square inch of the massive rock, NASA has narrowed down the possible landing ... asteroid’s material and return it to Earth. Selecting where to grab that sample ...

Before NASA recovered a capsule holding bits of space rock from the desert, the landing sequence for ... preliminary checks on the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission, shortly after ...

In a few weeks, skygazers will be able to see asteroid “2024 ON” as it swings by Earth at an astronomically close, but still safe distance, according to the Virtual Telescope Project.

These form what is called a binary asteroid, like the famous pair of Didymos and Dimorphos, which NASA crashed a spacecraft into in 2022. The new data about binary asteroids comes from the ...

“Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule!” a commentator said on NASA’s live video webcast of the landing ... military’s Utah Test and Training Range. Four years after its 2016 launch, the ...

Cislunar space has taken geopolitical center stage recently, with both Russian and Indian probes attempting to land near the lunar south pole. Carboxylic acid, a chemical considered important to ...

When I wasn’t working on my stories, I got my own little taste of Hollywood, so to speak. Goddard has a production studio to ...