Asteroid named for Egyptian god of chaos and darkness set for spacecraft flyby
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoAfter delivering an asteroid sample to Earth Sunday, the newly expanded OSIRIS-APEX mission is...
Queen’s Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample
ABC12 Mid-Michigan· 12 hours agoThe Queen guitarist and astrophysicist was part of a NASA team bringing an asteroid sample back to...
A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US
CNN.com· 1 day agoAn asteroid sample collected by NASA has touched down on Earth, giving scientists the opportunity to learn more about the origins of the solar system and...
OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample lands in Houston (photos)
SPACE.com· 11 hours agoThe asteroid sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just experienced its second touchdown...
Asteroid Bennu may answer long sought questions, some South Florida researchers say
CBS News· 8 hours ago"That is super, super exciting," he said, adding that the half-pound of rocks and space dust...
Q&A: The first asteroid sample returned to Earth
Phys.org· 12 hours agoAs a candy-striped parachute billowed open to slow its freefall, the capsule plummeted down to the sand, slightly ahead of schedule. The special delivery...
NASA Successfully Lands Ancient Asteroid Sample in Utah Desert After 7-Year Mission
IGN Videogames· 4 hours agoNASA has successfully completed its ambitious mission to return a sample of the ancient asteroid...
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft
San Francisco Chronicle· 1 day agoNASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released ...
Pieces of distant, ancient asteroid arrive on Earth from Nasa spacecraft, after travelling billions...
The Independent UK via AOL· 1 day agoA piece of an asteroid has arrived on Earth from the other side of the solar system, in a major...
Houston, We Have an Asteroid: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Sample Capsule Arrives at Johnson Space Center
SciTechDaily· 5 hours agoNASA’s Johnson Space Center received the first U.S. asteroid sample from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on September 24. Scientists will soon analyze the sample from asteroid ...