NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson
4 min read NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Images Asteroid Donaldjohanson In its second asteroid encounter, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped...
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients
In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx...
NASA to Brief Media on Asteroid Sample Mission Findings
Jason Dworkin, project scientist for OSIRIS-REx at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, views a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample in the...
NASA’s Planetary Defenders Head to the Sundance Film Festival
Trailer for NASA’s upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” which will take audiences inside the high-stakes world of asteroid hunting and planetary defense. NASA is bringing the...
NASA’s Webb Reveals Smallest Asteroids Yet Found in Main Asteroid Belt
Illustration of the main asteroid belt, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter NASA NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope includes asteroids on its list of objects...
NASA Shares Asteroid Bennu Sample in Exchange with JAXA
As part of an asteroid sample exchange, NASA has transferred to JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) a portion of the asteroid Bennu sample collected by...
NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun
4 min read NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX Unscathed After Searing Pass of Sun Mission engineers were confident NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification – Apophis Explorer)...
NASA Asteroid Sampling Mission Renamed OSIRIS-APEX for New Journey
5 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) At the end of a long-haul road trip, it might be time to kick...
DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission
3 min read DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission Eric Long, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum NASA’s...
Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023
1 min read Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023 Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with...
