NASA’s OSIRIS-REx survived its risky mission to grab a piece of an asteroid0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 21, 2020
If all went well, the NASA spacecraft will return the samples from Bennu to Earth in 2023

If all went well, the NASA spacecraft will return the samples from Bennu to Earth in 2023

Move is part of US space agency’s plan to establish a long-term human presence on the moon by 2030

An American spacecraft is about to attempt the audacious task of grabbing rock samples from an asteroid.

Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is making history as it attempts for the first time to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu by briefly touching down on the rocky surface.

Can a Starship reach Mars by 2024?

That’s one way to rock the vote.

Using new observational data from the space-based Solar Mass Ejection Imager and three different modeling techniques, astronomers have found that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion, has a radius of about 764 solar radii, a mass between 16.5 and 19 solar masses, and is 548 light-years away.

Called RBC EXT8, the cluster challenges some theories of how galaxies form and evolve

About 1000 kilometres above Earth’s surface, two old spacecraft have narrowly avoided a collision.

New images taken by BepiColombo come at a time when interest in the second planet from the sun is at an all time high.



