When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.If all goes according to plan, ...
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China’s Tianwen-2 probe is sliding into orbit around a tiny near-Earth asteroid to grab a sample next month
China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is on track to reach asteroid (469219) Kamoʻoalewa for close-approach observations and sample collection in 2026, according to the China National Space Administration ...
Material from an asteroid will "come screaming into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at more than 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet" – but it has all been planned by space scientists, who hope it will ...
A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists ...
Early on Sunday morning, the skies above a secluded military complex in central Australia will be brightened by a fireball plummeting to Earth. It will be a flamboyant homecoming for the sample return ...
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