The Japanese spaceship Hayabusa2 will drop a capsule filled with fragments of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu into the Australian outback this coming weekend. Japanese space agency officials said the samples of the Ryugu asteroid – 180 million miles away – were on track to return to Earth on Sunday after separating from the Hayabusa2 spaceship … Read more
Massive asteroid named after the ‘God of Chaos’ is gaining speed as it travels towards Earth, increasing its chances of an impact in 2068 that would be equivalent to 880 MILLION tons of TNT Asteroid Apophis has picked up speed as it travels on a path towards Earth Experts call this the Yarkovsky effect, which … Read more
Stunning images taken from the historic OSIRIS-REx mission show the moment the spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu more than 200 million miles away from Earth to collect a sample of dirt and dust Tuesday night. On Wednesday NASA unveiled videos and images showing the moment the spacecraft pulled off the six-second touch-and-go (TAG) … Read more
NASA prepares for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu with OSIRIS-REX mission where its robotic arm will collect rock samples during brief contact before launching back into space NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready to reach out its robotic arm and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu’s surface Tuesday evening As of 5pm Tuesday EST … Read more
NASA will ‘tag’ the Bennu asteroid later tonight, taking a sample of rock from its boulder-strewn surface and returning it to Earth in about three years. The space agency’s van-sized OSIRIS-REx craft will touch down for a handful of seconds on the space rock following a carefully orchestrated 4.5-hour descent. The spaceship is scheduled to … Read more
Bus-size asteroid is set to pass by Earth at about 93,000 miles TODAY traveling more than 26,000 miles per hour– but experts say it won’t make impact An asteroid that measures the length of a bus is heading towards Earth 2020 TF6 is set to fly pass our planet just about 93,000 feet away Experts … Read more
Bus-size asteroid is set to pass by Earth at about 93,000 miles TODAY traveling more than 26,000 miles per hour– but experts say it won’t make impact An asteroid that measures the length of a bus is heading towards Earth 2020 TF6 is set to fly pass our planet just about 93,000 feet away Experts … Read more
NASA is preparing for touch down on asteroid Bennu tomorrow where it will take samples from the boulder-strewn space rock and bring them back to Earth by 2023. The space agency announced its OSIRIS-REx craft will touch down for a handful of seconds on asteroid Bennu following a carefully orchestrated 4.5 hour descent. Van-sized, the … Read more
A real-life space oddity: ‘Asteroid’ hurtling towards Earth may be a piece of rocket that was jettisoned during attempted moon landing in 1966 A telescope discovered ‘asteroid 2020 SO’ hurtling towards Earth last month Now scientists believe the object is part of an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket from 1966 The rocket propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 to … Read more
Asteroid Bennu may contain the building blocks of life within its ‘rubble-pile’ surface, and the body was once part of a much larger, water covered world, scientists claim. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will land on Bennu on October 20 to collect samples of the space rock and bring them back to Earth for scientists to study … Read more