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OTD In Space – February 3: ISS Astronauts Launch SuitSat
On February 3, 2006, astronauts at the International Space Station sent an empty spacesuit tumbling through space all by ...
Astronomy14h
Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.
New Scientist16h
Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries
More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
Live Science1d
Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...
‘SPACE’ looks back at the history of women in aviation
It tells the stories of the Mercury 13, a group of women who trained to be astronauts in 1962, but were denied the ...
Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system's potential for life was widespread
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...