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Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin offered to "execute Mars Sample Return (MSR) as a firm-fixed price solution for under $3 ...
An Innovative Spacecraft Makes Contact With an Asteroid A new book tells the story of the mastermind who directed NASA’s daring OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company's upcoming mission to return a ...
Despite all the scientific progress we've made and the incredible explorations of our solar system we've carried out, space itself remains one giant mystery. From the potential for life to exist on ...
Vertical has revealed an official trailer for an action movie called Osiris, a sci-fi thriller about a group of soldiers trying to survive on a hostile alien spacecraft.
There is huge promise in AI to transform spacecraft design. From near real-time performance calculations that enable broader design space exploration, to generative algorithms using mission ...
Scientists have been analysing clumps of rock from Bennu since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned samples from the asteroid to Earth in 2023.
A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Colorado State University.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution ...
HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations.
Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid Bennu, has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth in the year 2182.