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Space.com

The mission marks the first time that NASA has taken a sample of an asteroid, not to mention successfully recovering it. After traveling for over 4 billion miles (6.2 billion kilometers) to …

Space.com

A new OSIRIS-REx Curation Laboratory in Houston awaits delivery of the asteroid samples, which will first be inspected at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Comments (0). Scientists take a closer look at the OSIRIS-REx capsule.

CNN

OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, lifted off in 2016 and began orbiting Bennu in 2018. The spacecraft collected the sample in 2020 and set off on its lengthy return trip to …

Space.com

OSIRIS-REx’s samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.

Space.com

NASA’s first asteroid sample-return mission is set to deliver the goods at 10:55 a.m. ET on Sunday (Sept. 24).

PBS NewsHour

In an exciting milestone for lunar scientists around the globe, India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down 375 miles (600 km) from the south pole of the moon on Aug. 23, 2023. In just under 14 Earth days, Chandrayaan-3 provided scientists with valuable …

Space.com

Liftoff is scheduled for 3:23 a.m. ET on Monday (Sept. 25). … a black-and-white spacex falcon 9 rocket launches into a blue sky. A …

Phys.Org

In this photo provided by researchers, an excavation team uncovers a wooden structure found on a riverbed near a waterfall in Zambia in 2019. The pair of crossed logs may be the oldest evidence of early humans building with wood, nearly half a million …

Livemint

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will wait another 14 days to establish contact with Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander and Pragyan rover. ISRO will continue attempts to revive the Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover till the next sunset on the Moon which …

ABC News

A species of prehistoric crocodile that once roamed the now arid landscape of central Australia has been named. Key points: Baru iylwenpeny lived in central Australia eight million years ago; Fossils from the previously unnamed species have been found …