NASA Confirms Bennu Asteroid Holds Key Buildings Block To Life
A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a ...
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NASA astronaut Suni Williams sets new record on 5.5-hour spacewalk outside ISS (video)
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were able to remove a stuck radio communications unit on a record-setting ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
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NASA Confirms Crew for Private Axiom Mission 4 to ISS
Hungary’s Tibor Kapu (from left), India’s Shubhanshu Shukla, Axiom’s Peggy Whitson, and Poland’s Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski ...
An asteroid with a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032 is triggering planetary defense planning
YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...
NASA mission finds key ingredients for life in asteroid samples
The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...
NASA reveals results from asteroid Bennu's sample return, hinting at the origins of life
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...
‘Stranded’ astronauts head out for spacewalk after Trump demands early return
President Donald Trump took to social media this week to announce he had directed SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to “go get” two NASA ...
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NASA astronauts free stuck radio unit, collect microbes and set record on station spacewalk
Suni Williams surpasses the most time by a woman on EVA during a spacewalk with Butch Wilmore outside the International Space ...
A balloon mission that could explore Venus indefinitely
Sometimes, the best innovative ideas come from synthesizing two previous ones. We've reported before on the idea of having a ...
NASA’s 2 stranded astronauts take first spacewalk together after 8 months stuck on International Space Station
Commander Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore removed a broken antenna and wiped the station’s exterior for evidence of any ...