On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...

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On 20 October, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On 4 September, 2023, as it passed ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...

SpaceX successfully launched 21 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early this morning, marking its 15th Falcon 9 mission of the year. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral ...

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have identified nine rings — more than previously detected by any ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This brutal event has led to Nasa branding it “the roasted ...

LEDA 132905 resides over 400 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. “The galaxy’s spiral structure is faintly visible, as are patches of bright blue stars,” members of the Hubble ...

We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.

The observations were made by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm constellation, which consists of three satellites circling the planet in low Earth orbit at altitudes between 287 and 318 ...