NASA Finally Defeats Stubborn Fasteners in Epic Fight for Samples of an Alien World
22 Jan 2024, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA says it now has full access to the contents of the OSIRIS-REx sampler, should retrieve all asteroid pieces soon
NASA May Have Just Stumbled Upon the Mother of All Space Navigation Solutions
1 Nov 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx mission used as a backup navigation solution something called the Goddard Image Analysis and Navigation Tool
NASA People Dissecting Alien Asteroid Sample Already Found Traces of Carbon and Water
12 Oct 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the Bennu asteroid sample it got last month is the "biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth,"
For the First Time Ever a Piece of Asteroid Landed in the U.S. Instead of Crashing
25 Sep 2023, 05:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA managed to safely bring down a capsule containing a sample of asteroid Bennu, the work on unlocking its secrets has only just begun
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship
21 Sep 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a few days are left until the OSIRIS-REx spaceship drops a capsule containing an asteroid sample, Europeans snatch it on film as it approaches
America Is Getting an Asteroid Delivery From Space, Here's Where to Watch
19 Sep 2023, 05:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Sunday, September 24, the OSIRIS-REx mission ends with a capsule containing a piece of an asteroid landing in the Utah desert
Countdown Begins for Unprecedented Asteroid Sample Landing in the Utah Desert
31 Aug 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-Rex spaceship is now less than a month away from Earth, it will deliver samples of a 4.5 billion years old asteroid on September 24
Spaceship With Asteroid Bits Is Getting Closer, NASA Preps Army of Scientists to Handle It
21 Jun 2023, 11:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx spaceship is on track to deliver bits of asteroid Bennu to Earth this fall, NASA is making the finishing touches to handle them
Piece of Asteroid Heading for Utah Onboard Spacecraft Has Scientists Scrambling
28 Mar 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA teams across the nation are getting ready for the arrival of a piece of asteroid Bennu in September, delivered by parachute in the Utah desert
Spacecraft Is Speeding Towards Earth, Will Drop Something Alien Into Our Atmosphere
18 Oct 2022, 08:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA scientists have begun correcting the course of the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft as it heads back to drop to the surface a piece of asteroid Bennu
NASA to Point Returning Spacecraft at Scary Apophis Before Asteroid’s 2029 Close Approach
26 Apr 2022, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and the University of Arizona to send the OSIRIS spacecraft on a new mission once it returns next year, new target Apophis
Humans Poked an Asteroid. Next Century, the Asteroid Might Poke Back
21 Aug 2021, 09:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After crunching in all the number from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, NASA is confident it now know more about the possible trajectories of asteroid Bennu
An Asteroid Could Hit Earth and China Wants to Divert It Using 23 Rockets
14 Jul 2021, 08:56 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / China wants to fire into space 23 Long March 5 rockets to divert by approximately 6,000 miles an asteroid that can impact Earth in the future.
Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth in a Spacecraft, Because They Do That Now
11 May 2021, 09:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has begun its 1.4 billion mile (2.25 billion km) journey home, to arrive in 2023 with a piece of asteroid Bennu
Images of NASA-Damaged Asteroid Coming Our Way as OSIRIS Completes Flyby
8 Apr 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's OSIRIS spacecraft completed its last flyby of asteroid Bennu, Earth now waiting for the captured images to make it back home
NASA Spacecraft Damaged an Asteroid, Soon We’ll Know Just How Much
2 Apr 2021, 08:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's OSIRIS spacecraft to conduct a close flyby of the Bennu asteroid on April 7 to see the damage it caused while collecting samples
Spaceship With Impossible Name Coming Back to Earth With Asteroid Samples
27 Jan 2021, 15:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the OSIRIS-Rex sample collection spacecraft will begin its journey home on May 10, will arrive on Earth in 2023
NASA Spacecraft Ready to Head Back to Earth with a Piece of an Asteroid
31 Oct 2020, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA stowes the sample from asteroid Bennu inside the OSIRIS spacecraft, ready to begin the trip home as soon as the window opens in March 2021