A small asteroid neared the Earth's atmosphere before exploding. Derrick Pitts, the Franklin Institute's chief astronomer and planetarium director, joins CBS News with more on the phenomenon. Dec 4 03:56 Trump taps billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as next NASA chief Jared Isaacman...
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Imagine this hurtling through space: Scientists have found an asteroid with dimensions similar to the Empire State Building. This asteroid, which recently sped past Earth, has caught the attention of NASA astronomers for its bizarre long shape. The space rock — which has perhaps whizzed by to...
NASA announced today more details in its plan for an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). The decision has been made for an uncrewed solar electric-powered ARM spacecraft to rendezvous with a target asteroid, then deploy robotic arms to capture a boulder from the asteroid’s surface. The ARM cra...
Image:Asteroid Bennu seen from the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Pic: NASA/AP Scientists hope it can shed light on the origin of the solar system and of life on Earth. An Osiris-Rex sample analyst, Daniel Glavin, said during a news conference to reveal the material that the ...
NASA’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 the sample capsule from 63,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) out. The small capsule landed four ho...
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
The moment of truth: the OSIRIS-REx sample acquisition mechanism plunges into the surface of the asteroid Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020, collecting about a half-pound of rocks and dust for return to Earth.NASA "Going back to the dawn of the solar system" ...
NASA'S Asteroid Samples Land in U.S.: With Melissa Adan, Tom Burridge, Linsey Davis, Ike Ejiochi.
Today, a NASA probe will slam into a near-Earth asteroid. Scientists hope the mission will provide valuable insights that will help us defend ourselves against any asteroids that may pose a threat in the future. NASA's Double-Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, ...