Collaborate Disseminate
Tardigrades are some of the toughest lifeforms ever discovered, and it’s been proposed that they (or similar organisms) could seed life through the cosmos by hitching rides on asteroids. Now, researchers at the University of Kent have tested the hypoth… Continue reading Tardigrades fired from a gun to test theory asteroids seed life
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) robotic deep-space probe is returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10, 2021 at 4:23 pm EDT, the spacecraft began its 2.5-year journ… Continue reading OSIRIS-REx headed back to Earth with “abundance” of asteroid samples
The good news about using solar power to explore space is there are no clouds to block your sunlight. Some dust and debris, yes, but nowhere near what we have …read more Continue reading NASA’s Lucy Stretches Its Wings Ahead of Trojan Trek
If you were worried about asteroid 99942 Apophis hitting the Earth in 2068, you can relax for at least another century. A new survey by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has confirmed that the probability of it colliding with us then … Continue reading Asteroid 99942 Apophis won’t hit the Earth in 2068 after all
A new study has analyzed asteroid dust recently discovered in the Chicxulub asteroid crater. The findings further support the theory that the dramatic impact was the cause of the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Iridium levels of submerged crater support dinosaur extinction theory
A new study is questioning the origin of the body that smashed into Earth’s surface millions of years ago, causing a global extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. According to the research, the impactor may have originated from a massive sphere… Continue reading Dinosaur extinction may have resulted from death of “sungrazing” comet
NASA has set the timeline for the departure and return of its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which will carry with it precious surface samples from the asteroid Bennu for laboratory analysis back on Earth. Prior to making the return journey, the probe will con… Continue reading OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission to return to Earth in 2023
The pace of space exploration appears to have been meteoric in recent years, and 2021 has some major milestones to look forward to. From maiden flights to fiery endings, long-awaited launches to history-making first steps, here are some of the biggest … Continue reading Looking ahead at the year in space 2021
It’s rare that gravel gets scientists so excited, but these are no ordinary rocks. They’re the samples returned to Earth by Hayabusa2 after its 5.24-billion-km round trip to asteroid Ryugu, and this is our first glimpse at them after the spacecraft lan… Continue reading First glimpse at Hayabusa2’s asteroid haul
After a voyage of more than a year, the capsule carrying samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 deep-space probe has returned to Earth and has been recovered. On December 6 at 2:28 am JST, the re-entry capsule blazed a fiery path … Continue reading Hayabusa2 returns asteroid samples to Earth after fiery reentry