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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NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons' mission of exploration of the outer solar system.
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2023
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A new series of supercomputer simulations has offered an answer to the mystery of the origins of Saturn's rings—one that involves a massive collision in the recent history of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 27, 2023
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The first U.S. asteroid sample, delivered by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth on Sept. 24, has arrived at its permanent home at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it will be cared for, stored, and distributed ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 26, 2023
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The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations in late September 2023 at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ...
Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2023
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On Sept. 20, 2023, the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) spacecraft bus arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, after its journey from a Maxar facility in California. ...
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2023
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NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2023
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This week, we reported on spider silk synthesis without spiders, and how policymakers are pursuing a wish-based approach to a global economy under climate change—what the kids call "manifesting" a green-growth future. Plus, ...
Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on our planet are set to land in the Utah desert Sunday.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 23, 2023
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Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa's strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of the committee ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 22, 2023
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