On October 20, 2020, a robot carefully scooped up 121.6 grams of the most expensive dirt in the solar system.That robot, a NASA spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx, had spent two years en route to its ...
Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.
Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...
How to recognize extraterrestrial life if space chemistry produces the same building blocks as biology? This fundamental ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent two years observing the asteroid Bennu before it collected a ...
A trio of rock hunters have donated two fingernail-sized samples of the meteor that blazed across Nevada and California last month to the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab. The lab, which is currently ...
When researchers finally cracked open the canisters from asteroid Bennu, they were not just sifting through dust. They were staring at a chemical time capsule packed with sugars, amino acids, salt ...
Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...
A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...
How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an ...
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The wallaby was at Walmart. Rex, a marsupial that went missing from a Williamstown petting zoo, was returned home in good condition after a suspenseful search ended happily Dec. 30, its owner said.