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The New York Times

The seven-year OSIRIS-REX mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life.

Space.com

Although the mission team usually charts out the rover’s course manually, the automatic navigation system named AutoNav proved remarkable in this case as it safely guided Perseverance around rocks hidden from orbiter images typically used for planning, …

Space.com

This second asteroid quest will see the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft (as it’s now known) sidle up to an infamous near-Earth object. Comments (0). A spacecraft fires thrusters near an asteroid in artist’s depiction. NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft fires its …

Space.com

The galactic halo — a vast sphere of stars floating like leaves on a dark matter pond — rests just beyond the spiral arms of the Milky Way. In a 2022 study, astronomers investigated this region using the …

CNN

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivers a sample from the asteroid Bennu to Earth on Sunday. Video Ad Feedback. Watch: Long-awaited asteroid …

Space.com

The field campaigns will help refine the VERITAS mission, which is expected to fly no earlier than 2031. Comments (0). people in neon vests walk across swirly volcanic rocks. Members of the VERITAS science team descend a slope to new rock formed from a …

USA TODAY

The Artemis II lunar mission will take humankind further than we’ve gone before. Who are the brave astronauts who will head out on a ten-day journey around the moon? We sat down with astronaut and pilot Victor Glover to find out what this next mission …

Phys.Org

In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid.

ABC News

More research is showing that we carry genes from other kinds of ancient humans, and their DNA affects our lives today. ByLAURA UNGAR AND MADDIE BURAKOFF AP science writers. September 24, 2023, 10:04 PM. People visit the exhibits inside the Smithsonian …

Astronomy Magazine

On Sept. 24, 2023, part of the asteroid belt hit Earth — safely under parachutes and inside a capsule. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — better known as OSIRIS-REx — has now successfully dropped …