Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 9, 2020
A stream of new studies reveals clues about Bennu’s past, just days before NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission attempts to collect rocks from the asteroid.

A stream of new studies reveals clues about Bennu’s past, just days before NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission attempts to collect rocks from the asteroid.

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have captured the first direct images of the recently-discovered giant planet Beta Pictoris c.

It looks like we may have to update our theories on how stars and planets form in new solar systems.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to collect material from the space rock

A growing body of research suggests the planet Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin atmosphere.

Black holes are perhaps the strangest, least-understood objects in our universe. With so much potential — being linked to everything from wormholes to new baby universes — they have sucked in physicists for decades.

A fireball is an especially bright meteor from space. It can start out icy and burn up entirely in our atmosphere, or rocky … in which case a meteorite sometimes falls to Earth’s surface. This bright fireball blazed over northeastern Mexico on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.

It is thought the celestial body was created in a cosmic crash 4.5bn years ago

The meteor shower will peak on Wednesday night.

The $9.8 billion observatory is scheduled to launch in October 2031.



