If all goes well, on Thursday morning a NASA mission with extensive connections to MIT will be headed to a metal world.
Space Exploration
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A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that life on Earth was seeded from outer space.
Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2023
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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 ...
Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2023
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A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Planetary Scientist and Associate Vice President Dr. Alan Stern posits that the large, approximately 5-kilometer-long mounds that dominate the appearance of the larger ...
Astronomy
Oct 3, 2023
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Southwest Research Institute scientists are using telescopes to observe the asteroid Psyche in the infrared, providing context for NASA's upcoming Psyche mission. Dr. Stephanie Jarmak is using the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 2, 2023
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Bound for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche mission is targeting Oct. 5 to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2023
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French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century readers with the tantalizing notion that a journey to the center of the Earth was actually plausible.
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2023
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One of the U.K.'s most famous meteorites is helping scientists learn more about asteroids millions of kilometers away from Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Aug 7, 2023
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The Psyche mission is speeding toward its Oct. 5 launch date, preparing for the last of its launch-preparation milestones.
Space Exploration
Aug 3, 2023
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Infrared spectra of anhydrous grains from the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu indicate a connection between one of the reservoirs from which Ryugu's parent body originated and the reservoirs that formed comets and primitive asteroids ...
Planetary Sciences
Jul 26, 2023
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