NASA released a nicely produced documentary about the James Webb Space Telescope called "Cosmic Dawn: the Untold Story of the ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds, roughly half as long as it took Neil Armstrong to announce his “one small step for ...

Bennu is a small near-Earth asteroid – just about 500 metres in diameter – but it’s one of the most studied and scientifically valuable objects of its kind. Unlike the metal-rich asteroids mentioned ...

That’s the asteroid known as 101955 Bennu. He’s watching it while perched on an upholstered metal stool inside an unassuming building in Littleton, Colorado.

There should be plenty more to come from TELEMARK as a 4-y-o handicapper and on the back of an eye-catching reappearance, he looks a fascinating contender.Bobby Bennu boasts a very similar profile ...

3. Building blocks of life on Bennu. Once the OSIRIS-REx return capsule was safely back on Earth, researchers across the world—including geologist Timothy J. McCoy from the Smithsonian ...

The first, called “touch-and-go,” was used by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft at asteroid Ryugu in 2018 and by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu in 2020.

The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest Rocks Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that ...

A 10 lb rise in the weights is no laughing matter but such was SOUL DANCE's superiority at Nottingham that it's easy to believe the Andrew Balding-trained filly will prove up to the task.She has ...