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Space.com

It’s been seven years since the launch of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return samples of asteroid Bennu, and the long wait for the spacecraft’s homecoming is nearly over. OSIRIS-REx …

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After being released by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at an altitude of about 63,000 miles (101,000 km) above Earth, the capsule should land in the Department of Defense’s remote Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) on Sunday (Sept. 24) at 8:55 a.m. MDT (10:55 …

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The same scene should play out in real life on Sunday, should everything go to plan. The stamp comes in sheets of 20 with a depiction of the surface of Bennu at the bottom of the pane and an outer space scene of deep blue dappled with celestial bodies …

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The discovery made using NASA’s powerful space telescope brings scientists a step closer to determining if the salty water oceans of Europa could support life. Comments (0). a blurry image of a blue and white moon in space.

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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants to lighten our planet’s space-junk load. The FAA — which, among other duties, awards launch licenses — has proposed a rule that would limit the amount of time that private rockets’ upper stages stay …

NPR

If all goes as planned, on Sunday morning a bell-shaped space capsule the size of a mini-fridge will come screaming down through the atmosphere toward a Utah desert. Inside will be some precious cargo: about a cup’s worth of rock and dust that a NASA …

Space.com

Engineers at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have begun attempts to wake the Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover from hibernation after the two-week frosty lunar night. On Friday (Sept. 22), ISRO said in a post on X, formerly known as …

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The ‘ring of fire’ annular solar eclipse is one of the most anticipated astronomical events of the year. Comments (0). Graphic illustration of a sequence of eclipse images and an animated timer in the center. The duration of the annular solar eclipse …

Spaceflight Now

If NASA had asked astronaut Frank Rubio, well in advance, if he would like to spend a full year aboard the International Space Station, he likely would have turned it down. But that’s how it turned out anyway, when trouble with his crew’s Soyuz ferry …

CNN

“We’ve been looking into visual behavior and all kinds of experiments, and learning is just a natural progression,” said first author Jan Bielecki, a postdoctoral fellow in visual neuroethology at Kiel.