Nasa’s Osiris-Rex probe aims for daring ‘high five’ with asteroid Bennu0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2020
An American spacecraft is about to attempt the audacious task of grabbing rock samples from an asteroid.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to make history in asteroid Bennu touch down0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2020
Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is making history as it attempts for the first time to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu by briefly touching down on the rocky surface.
Elon Musk says SpaceX’s 1st Starship trip to Mars could fly in 4 years0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2020
Can a Starship reach Mars by 2024?
Neil deGrasse Tyson warns asteroid could hit Earth day before election0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 19, 2020
That’s one way to rock the vote.
Betelgeuse is Smaller and Closer to Earth than Previously Thought0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2020
Using new observational data from the space-based Solar Mass Ejection Imager and three different modeling techniques, astronomers have found that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant in the constellation of Orion, has a radius of about 764 solar radii, a mass between 16.5 and 19 solar masses, and is 548 light-years away.
A spherical star cluster has surprisingly few heavy elements0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2020
Called RBC EXT8, the cluster challenges some theories of how galaxies form and evolve
Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 17, 2020
About 1000 kilometres above Earth’s surface, two old spacecraft have narrowly avoided a collision.
A spacecraft en route to Mercury just caught this fresh new look at Venus0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 16, 2020
New images taken by BepiColombo come at a time when interest in the second planet from the sun is at an all time high.
Nasa’s James Webb space telescope passes launch simulation tests0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 16, 2020
Environmental tests exposed spacecraft to vibrations and noise it will face during ascent
Astronomers report two new space oddities0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 15, 2020
Death by spaghettification and a stellar peacock.
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