and recovery specialist Levi Hanish, right, all with Lockheed Martin, prepare the sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission for transport after it landed at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in Octob...
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NASA Rover Lands on Mars More NASA|JPL-Caltech This is the first image NASA’s Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. After a seven-month, 300-million-mile journey, a NASA rover on Thursday successfully landed on the red...
NASA will discuss the September arrival of asteroid samples collected by its OSIRIS-REx probe during a press conference today (Aug. 30), and you can watch it live.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe to pass Venus on record-breaking approach to the sun NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to make a record-breaking attempt to get close to the sun. ...
The solar-powered lander's main science instruments are a burrowing heat probe and a supersensitive suite of seismometers. The mission team is also using InSight's communications gear to precisely track its location on Mars. This information reveals how much the planet is wobbling on its axis, ...
The next one, 1996 VB3, will pass by Earth on Wednesday. It’s measured at 420 feet — the size of some office buildings. The asteroid will come 2.1 million miles close to Earth. RELATED:NASA DART mission: Spacecraft to deliberately crash into asteroid’s moon ...
The mission target is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. This will be the agency’s first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of planetary defense. It also will be the first time that humans have changed the motion of a solar system...
☆ Aug 22 — Apollo Asteroid 354182 (2002 DU3):Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU) FRIDAY ☾ Aug 23 —Chandrayaan-3,Shiv Shakti Point, Moon(69.373°S, 32.319°E):First annual observation of Vikram lander and Pragyan rover successfully landing on Moon in 2023, and India becoming 4th country to...
First commercial spacecraft lands on the Moon Successful touchdown by Intuitive Machines’ lunar lander heralds more commercial era for space exploration February 23 2024 House & Home How to build a home on the Moon (that you might actually want to live in) ...