asteroid

Greedy grabber: NASA scrambles to return jam-packed asteroid sampler to Earth as rock dust escapes from ship’s overstuffed ‘belly’

Three days after touching down on asteroid Bennu hundreds of millions of miles away from home, NASA said its Osiris-Rex…

4 years ago

5 asteroids buzz by Earth TODAY, as NASA gears up for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu

The first three of the day’s five space rocks have mercifully passed the Earth by without incident, according to the…

4 years ago

Asteroid that may hit Earth day before US election is ‘not big enough to cause harm,’ Neil deGrasse Tyson reassures earthlings

With an estimated diameter of 2 meters (6.5 feet, or roughly one ‘refrigerator’), the asteroid known as 2018VP1 is just…

4 years ago

Selected landing place OSIRIS-REx to asteroid Bennu

  The American research apparatus of the OSIRIS-REx reached the asteroid Bennu in early December, 2018 and reached its orbit…

5 years ago

Japanese spacecraft collected samples of soil of the asteroid. What’s he looking for there?

Japanese space probe "Hayabusa-2" held for the second successful mission for the collection of soil samples from the surface of…

5 years ago

Japanese probe “Hayabusa-2” detonated on the asteroid Ryugu to create a crater

the Japanese aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) reported on the successful undermining, was made on Friday on the asteroid's surface Ryugu.…

5 years ago

Astronomers found water on the asteroid Itokawa

This confirms confirms the hypothesis that water once fell on the Earth due to asteroid collision.Researchers from the University of…

5 years ago

The asteroid Bennu was shown in the recent photos. Photo

There are new detailed images.Part of the crater in the Equatorial region of Bennu. The received March 28, PolyCam camera…

5 years ago

NASA will conduct exercises to combat asteroid threat

The asteroid was discovered on March 26. From 29 April to 3 may, NASA will hold a conference Planetary Defense…

5 years ago

AXA showed how the probe “Hayabusa-2” has collected soil samples of an asteroid Ryugu

The Japanese space Agency (JAXA) released footage collection of soil samples Ryugu asteroid (162173) Ryugu spacecraft "Hayabusa-2" after the last…

5 years ago