Long-exposure photo showing the trail of asteroid 2024 BX1 shortly before impact. The changes in brightness are caused by the…
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Before astronauts leave Earth’s gravity for days, weeks, or even months at a time, they practice aboard NASA’s famous parabolic…
Read More »Scientists have detected water molecules on the surface of an asteroid in space for the first time. The findings reveal…
Read More »It’s official: NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of pristine space rocks when it bopped the asteroid Bennu four years…
Read More »Around 2.5 million years ago, an asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica. The evidence comes from a chemical analysis of…
Read More »Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that gained significant attention when the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission collected samples and returned them to…
Read More »The final samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are finally coming into view. Four months after they were dropped off…
Read More »Even the brilliant minds at NASA sometimes have trouble opening up a tightly-sealed container. Engineers and scientists from Johnson Space…
Read More »Hera, with CubeSats, will soon be heading to the Dimorphos asteroid ESA/Science Office The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending…
Read More »This image made with the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA on Aug. 10, 2020, shows the star Alpha…
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