NASA’s Daring Asteroid Heist: The Challenges of OSIRIS-REx TAG [Video]
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, will make a daring attempt to “TAG” asteroid Bennu on October 20, 2020 – touch its surface and…
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to TAG an Asteroid: 10 Things to Know About Bennu
NASA’s first mission to return a sample from an ancient asteroid arrived at its target, the asteroid Bennu, on December 3, 2018. This mission, the…
How Dodging Class Led to a Rendezvous With an Asteroid
Name: Olivia Billett Title: Systems Engineer and Lockheed Martin Science Phase Lead for ORISIS-REx. Education: B.S Physics and Astronomy from Yale. Master’s in Aerospace from…
NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection – How to Watch Live Broadcast
NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a…
NASA’s Planet Hunter TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky – Imaged 75% of the Sky So Far
Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of the northern sky assembled from 208 pictures captured by NASA’s Transiting…
A New Look at Sunspots is Helping NASA Understand Life Around Other Stars
NASA’s extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up – one of the agency’s spacecraft is even on its way to…
Asteroid Bennu Secrets Unlocked by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Ahead of Historic Heist
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Completes Environmental Testing – Survived Harsh Conditions of Rocket Launch
With the completion of its latest series of milestone tests, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now survived all of the harsh conditions associated with…
Gigafire! August Complex Wildfire Still Burning – Largest Fire in California’s History
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured another startling image of the August Complex of fires that has grown to over 1,000,000 acres burned (1,006,140 acres total) and…
NASA’s TESS Creates a Cosmic Vista of the Northern Sky [Video]
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent nearly a year imaging the northern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system. Explore this…
Pristine Space Rock Offers NASA a Peek at the Building Blocks of the Evolution of Life
During a 2012 expedition to Antarctica, a team of Japanese and Belgian researchers picked up a small rock that appeared coal black against the snow…
Looking Down at Storm From Space, NASA Finds Heavy Rainfall Ringing Major Hurricane Maria’s Eye
Imagine being able to look down at a storm from orbit in space, and provide data that lets scientists calculate the rate in which rain…
Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the…
NASA’s Aqua Satellite Finds Hurricane Marie Rapidly Intensifying
NASA infrared imagery revealed that Hurricane Marie is rapidly growing stronger and more powerful. Infrared imagery revealed that powerful thunderstorms circled the eye of the…
NASA Satellites Aid Efforts to Track California’s Wildfire Smoke From Space
Wildfires have been burning across the state of California for weeks – some of them becoming larger complexes as different fires merge. One of those…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Begins Its Countdown to TAG Asteroid Bennu’s Boulder-Strewn Surface
A historic moment is on the horizon for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In just a few weeks, the robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend to asteroid Bennu’s…
Vesta Meteorites Discovered on Asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft
In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The…
First Possible “Survivor” Planet Discovered by NASA Next to a Stellar Cinder
The violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away any planets. The newly discovered Jupiter-size object may have arrived…