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Space on MSNCould NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? New $3 billion private plan would haul home Red Planet rocks (video)The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.
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The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...
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.
OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—has successfully sent ... (National Geographic, 2019) and Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet (National Geographic ...
First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet's orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team.
OSIRIS-REx's asteroid-sample return capsule will land in Utah on Sept. 24 at around 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT). Here's the latest.
On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.
"The OSIRIS-REx sample is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth and will help scientists investigate the origins of life on our own planet for generations to come," NASA ...
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex asteroid-sampling mission, tasked with finding hints about the origins of life on our planet, has returned to Earth from a seven-year journey to the other side of the solar system.
Scientists working on NASA's $1 billion OSIRIS-REx mission watched anxiously as the capsule came back to Earth, braving temperatures of more than 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit after slamming into the ...
In 2016, NASA launched a spacecraft to do something rarely attempted before: Collect space rocks from a potentially dangerous asteroid. The mission, named OSIRIS-REx, was successful. Tuesday ...
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