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NASA’s space shuttle NASA’s spacecraft orbiting the Earth’s asteroid, Ben-Hur, has sent shocking pictures this week, in which the asteroid has seen the Earth and the Moon appear like a point. NASA warned that if the asteroid hits the ground, then 80,000 times more frightening catastrophe can be compared to the atomic bomb dropped on […]

US space agency NASA’s space shuttle found signs of water on the asteroid Bennu. In September 2016, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REX) mission was released to collect samples from the asteroid. Data from two spectrometers of spacecraft, OSIRIS-ARIX Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) and OSIRIS-REX Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), have been […]

American space agency NASA’s space shuttle Osiris-Rex has reached its goal ‘Bennu’ near the asteroid. The skyscraper-shaped Asteroid is expected to collide with the Earth in about 150 years. There is also the possibility of getting biological compounds along with it. For these reasons, NASA launched Osiris-Rex in 2016 for the study of Bennu. The […]

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission has finally made contact after having hovered for a number of months around its target. The two landers of the host spacecraft, ROVER-1A, and 1B, have landed upon the surface of the 162173 Ryugu asteroid and they have already been hopping all over the asteroid’s surface and taking up photos and […]

The first mission of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study Trojan asteroids is getting closer and closer. NASA’s goal is to explore the blocks formed from the remnants of the outer planets that orbit the Sun at a distance similar to that of Jupiter. According to the space agency, the […]

Mars has had the names of two well-known scientists on its maps for a few weeks: two large Martian craters are called, from now on, Lynn Margulis and Elizabeth Roemer. The doctoral student at the Spanish Astrobiology Center (CAB, a mixed center of the CSIC and the INTA) Cristina Robas has named these two Martian […]

Analysis of a small fragment of a meteorite that fell to Earth a dozen years ago has identified a new parent body once as massive as the dwarf planet Ceres. In 2008, an asteroid (2008 TC3) about four meters in diameter and weighing about nine tons entered Earth’s atmosphere before exploding in addition to 600 […]

Towards new horizons Many rovers have allowed us to explore new worlds. Like the Moon or Mars, for example. Incredible discoveries have been made with these four-wheeled machines, but their travel capabilities are still limited. To expand our horizons in a low-gravity environment, young Swiss researchers from ETH Zurich and ZHAW Zurich are developing SpaceBok, […]

Over the Bering Sea, without warning, a several-meter-long meteor entered the atmosphere and exploded – it was the second largest explosion of its kind in the past 30 years. The BBC reports, citing NASA researchers, who presented their analysis of the incident at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas. According to a compilation […]