A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Here’s a look at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the United States government agency that conducts research into space. There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy ...

NASA has decided to utilise the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavor, for the upcoming Crew-10 mission ... brought samples from the asteroid Bennu. The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid is ...

Scientists discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu ... to the mission by NASA, samples were delivered to Earth that serve as a "cosmic time capsule" offering ...

For example, in the recent OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, a sample collected from near-earth asteroid Bennu was sealed in ... retrieved the return capsule from the Utah desert, they carefully ...

The capsule, containing NASA’s first-ever sample ... will be late on Wednesday,” said Sandra Freund, the OSIRIS-REx mission operations manager for Lockheed Martin. The mission is led by ...

AstroForge’s Odin mission to survey a potentially metallic ... Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying ...

The Starliner saga is a step closer to its end with the launch of a SpaceX vehicle that will relieve the astronauts who flew on the Boeing spacecraft.