NASA’s 1st asteroid sample is rich in carbon and water, OSIRIS-REx team finds
News Science & Astronomy A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can ...
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Houston, We Have an Asteroid: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Capsule Arrives at Johnson Space Center
A shipping container with the canister of asteroid Bennu sample is strapped down onboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft. ...
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OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid sample lands in Houston (photos)
News Science & Astronomy Crews unload a box containing the OSIRIS-REx mission's asteroid sample from a plane in Houston on ...
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Asteroid sample returned to Earth is a time capsule of the ancient solar system
ByCarrie ArnoldPublished September 24, 2023• 7 min readAt 8:52 a.m. local time today, a mini fridge-size capsule carrying rock samples ...
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NASA to Reveal Asteroid Sample Grabbed in Space, Delivered to Earth
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s ...
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Win a free ‘Asteroid City’ Blu-ray and more in this Facebook giveaway!
News Entertainment Enter to win some cool "Asteroid City" merchandise in this free Space.com giveaway through Aug. 17! (Image credit: ...
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How Early Asteroid Impacts Created Conditions For Life
One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how life on Earth began. Scientists believe Earth formed about 4.5 ...
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NASA slammed into an asteroid. Hubble just spotted a spectacular effect.
The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting above Earth. Credit: NASA NASA's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results. Last year ...
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NASA Transports Mock Asteroid Sample as It Prepares for OSIRIS-REx Return
After landing on an asteroid nearly three years ago to scoop up a sample from its rocky surface, the OSIRIS-REx ...
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A Giant Asteroid Is Flying to Earth, and You’ll See It
The sun is rising, lighting up the trees, swamps, and massive plants of the Yucatán Peninsula. It’s 66 million years before today — the last ...
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