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How Deep Did OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft's Arm 'Plunge' Into Asteroid Bennu?
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...
An exceedingly rare asteroid flyby will happen soon, but NASA may be left on the sidelines
Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...
The mystery of Mercury's missing meteorites, and how we may have finally found some
Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...
Deep space asteroid sample contains unexpected ingredient
Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...
NASA satellite emits 'spark' decades after going dormant: Astronomers think they know why
Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...
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Astronomers thought a mysterious radio burst came from deep space. It was actually a dead NASA satellite
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...
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Listen to the Andromeda galaxy's stars played as musical notes in eerie NASA video
NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to ...