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The Universe May Be Teeming With Jupiter-Like Gas Giants, New Study Suggests

A new paper out this week makes the case that gas giants forming in the outer part of solar systems aren't unusual.

Inverse · Oct 17, 2023

NASA's Psyche asteroid mission: a 3.6 billion kilometre 'journey to the centre of the Earth'

Psyche was the Greek goddess of the soul, born a mere mortal and later married to Eros, the God of love. Who knows why the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis gave her name to a celestial object he observed one night in 1852?

The Conversation · Oct 17, 2023

NASA’s Psyche Mission Launches to What May Be the Heart Of a Now-Dead Planet

A new NASA mission is successfully heading to a metal-rich object that may be a remnant of an ancient collision.

Inverse · Oct 13, 2023

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Just Dropped Samples of Asteroid Bennu To Earth — Here’s Why They Are So Important

But like a college kid dropping off their laundry, the spaceship was just passing through on its way to another adventure.

Inverse · Sep 25, 2023

NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft

NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission to collect asteroid samples from Bennu culminates September 24 with a soft landing in Utah. The samples will provide insight into the formation of our solar system and how Earth became habitable. The capsule will be airlifted to a clean room and the sample sent to mission…

The Hindu · Sep 24, 2023

‘A treasure for scientific analysis’: Nasa holds Bennu asteroid sample press conference – as it happened

The blog is now closed, but you can read the full story about the successful Osiris-Rex sample touchdown here

The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2023

Nasa to return largest asteroid sample ever as UK helps with research

A capsule of material collected from asteroid Bennu is expected to land at 3.55pm BST on Sunday.

Evening Standard · Sep 24, 2023

What will ‘cosmic detective’ OSIRIS-Rex bring back on September 24? | Explained

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission will drop a capsule of pristine asteroid material in the Utah desert on September 24. The astro-material may provide insights into how planets formed, what materials were present in the early Solar System, and how life on the earth began. OSIRIS-Rex had to precisely choreograph a celestial…

The Hindu · Sep 23, 2023

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Will Drop An Asteroid Sample Sunday — Here’s How To Track It

But like a college kid dropping off their laundry, the spaceship is just passing through on its way to another adventure.

Inverse · Sep 22, 2023

UK researchers to study sample of asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa mission

The sample, which was collected as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission, will return to Earth on Sunday.

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2023