Tiny, seemingly innocent ocean crops survived the darkness of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs by studying a ghoulish conduct -- consuming different residing creatures.

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Useful resource Identification, Safety, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has efficiently stowed the spacecraft's Pattern Return Capsule (SRC) and its considerable pattern of asteroid Bennu.

Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission workforce obtained on Thursday, Oct. 22, photos that verify the spacecraft has collected greater than sufficient materials to satisfy certainly one of its principal mission necessities -- buying a minimum of 2 ounces (60 grams) of the asteroid's floor ...

NASA is speeding to make a 200 million mile trek again to Earth after an asteroid-sampling spacecraft bit off greater than it might chew, unable to comprise an outsized haul of alien rubble as its priceless cargo escapes into area. ...

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Useful resource Identification, Safety, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a primary for the company, briefly touched an asteroid to gather mud and pebbles from the floor for supply to Earth in 2023.

A small asteroid is headed in the direction of Earth at over 25,000 miles per hour simply in time for the US election, but when one thing kills us all in 2020, it gained’t be this specific house rock, famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says. ...

New findings from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission counsel that the inside of the asteroid Bennu might be weaker and fewer dense than its outer layers -- like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying although area.

As the times depend all the way down to NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's Contact-And-Go asteroid pattern assortment try, scientists have decided what the spacecraft can count on to return from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu's floor. Three papers focus on the colour, reflectivity, age, composition, origin and distribution of supplies that make ...

An SUV-size house rock flew previous our planet over the weekend and was detected by a NASA-funded asteroid survey because it departed.

Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impression 66 million years in the past reveals it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to dwell in.