Asteroid sampling missions are getting increasingly complex. Recent announcements about the existence of amino acids in the sample OSIRIS-REx returned…
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine…
We have all been there, had that one stubborn jar of jam that we just can’t open. Maybe you grab…
Like many of you, I loved Deep Impact and Armageddon. Great films, loads of action and of course, an asteroid…
Most of the spacecraft we send out into the Solar System are never meant to return. Time, space, and entropy…
The samples obtained by NASA's OSIRIS-REx of the asteroid Bennu landed this morning and will be analyzed shortly!
On Sunday, September 24th, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will deliver samples from the asteroid Benny.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft conducted a two-year reconnaissance and sample collection at the asteroid Bennu, providing crucial data about the 500-meter-wide…
A pair of studies published in Science and Science Advances have helped identify that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource…
In 2014, the Japanese Space Agency JAXA launched the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to visit asteroid Ryugu. It arrived at the…