Tagged: spacecraft

Osiris-Rex enthusiastically snagged a bit of asteroid Bennu, and on Wednesday it flew in to examine the mark it left behind. In October 2020, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft took a bite out of asteroid Bennu. Before Osiris-Rex returns to Earth to deliver its bounty, it took...

A Japanese spacecraft that successfully “bombed” an asteroid after a journey of more than 3 billion miles through space is close to returning to Earth. Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft is slated to drop at least 100 milligrams of the near-Earth asteroid, Ryugu, in Woomera, Australia, on...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is approaching the dwarf planet Ceres and new images released Monday show a closer view of the planet’s surface. “We know so much about the solar system and yet so little about dwarf planet Ceres. Now, Dawn is ready to change that,”...

“The world’s strongest coffee” is about to become the strongest off-world, too. Death Wish Coffee, billed as such for its high caffeine content and intense flavor, is set to be launched to the International Space Station. “We couldn’t think of a better way to showcase...

The UFO video starts like so many others on YouTube: An unimpressive feed from a handheld camera, jostled around within a moving car. There’s random background noise, then an expression of disbelief as the amateur filmmaker spots a spacecraft and tracks its path across the...

We produce carbon dioxide in our bodies when our cells break down food and we release it when we exhale. In the atmosphere, carbon dioxide concentrations are approximately 0.04 percent. However, in the confined cabins of spacecraft, like the space shuttle or space stations, the...

– NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other data. The flight team maneuvered the spacecraft into an orbit that dives 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the...

Within a few months, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is expected to run out of a key fuel, hydrazine, but in the meantime it continues its work of exploration and gathers images and collects gamma ray and neutron spectra, infrared and visible spectra, and gravity data. This...

It is expected that NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be launched in early August. It is the first NASA’s mission of this kind. The car-sized spacecraft will study the Sun closer than any human-made object ever has. Using Venus’ gravity, the Probe will gradually get...