NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during last fall's sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close ...
Space Exploration
Apr 1, 2021
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More than halfway to the Red Planet, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover isn't just shuttling sophisticated science instruments and tubes to be filled with Earth-bound rock samples. It's carrying symbols, mottos, and objects that ...
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2020
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Solar Orbiter will orbit our nearest star, the sun, observing it up close. It will take the first-ever direct images of its poles, while also studying the inner heliosphere—the bubble-like region around the sun created ...
Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2020
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NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole ...
Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2019
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To combine both halves of Webb, engineers carefully lifted the Webb telescope (which includes the mirrors and science instruments) above the already-combined sunshield and spacecraft using a crane. Team members slowly guided ...
Astronomy
Aug 29, 2019
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The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem.
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2019
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From August through early December, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft aimed three of its science instruments toward Bennu and began making the mission's first observations of the asteroid. During this period, the spacecraft traveled ...
Space Exploration
Dec 10, 2018
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New images from NASA's Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting.
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2018
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Engineers removed the combined optics and science instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope from their shipping container in a high bay at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, on March 8, ...
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2018
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade.
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2018
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