by admin | Oct 11, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP HOUSTON: NASA is set to reveal on Wednesday the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system and perhaps the origins of life itself. The...
by admin | Sep 24, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP WASHINGTON: The climactic end of a seven-year voyage comes Sunday when a NASA capsule is due to land in the Utah desert, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a...
by admin | Sep 22, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] After spending over seven years in space and traveling nearly 4 billion miles, a capsule containing precious asteroid samples will return to Earth on Sunday. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft – which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource...
by admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP WASHINGTON: European astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected a previously unknown asteroid about the size of Rome’s Colosseum in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid measuring between 300 and 650 feet...
by admin | Jan 27, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP LOS ANGELES: A truck-sized asteroid that suddenly loomed out of the darkness a few days ago — with the Earth in its sights — sailed harmlessly past us on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded, space scientists...
