NASA launches mission to intercept 'God of Chaos'. Everything about asteroid ApophisAsteroid Apophis, better known as the 'God of Chaos', is most likely to fly by Earth on April 13, 2029, from about only 20,000 miles away. ...
27 Dec, 2023, 06.37 PM IST
NASA's Bennu asteroid sample contains carbon, water. Did building blocks of life on Earth come from asteroids?NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected the sample from the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu in October 2020. It contains carbon and water m...
11 Oct, 2023, 11.58 PM IST
NASA's OSIRIS-REx set to return to Earth on Sep 24 with 1st-ever asteroid samplesNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is preparing to return to Earth on September 24 with the first-ever US asteroid sample. The spacecraft will deliv...
25 Sep, 2023, 01.07 PM IST
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraftNASA's spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, successfully landed in the Utah desert after a seven-year journey to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu...
25 Sep, 2023, 11.41 AM IST
NASA's Spacecraft to drop first-ever asteroid sample on Earth in Utah Desert | Where to watch & moreInitiated in 2016 and reaching asteroid Bennu in 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft embarked on an ambitious mission: to gather a sample of...
24 Sep, 2023, 06.47 PM IST
OSIRIS-REx Mission: When and where you can watch spacecraft return with historic asteroid sampleNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is set to return to Earth on September 24, bringing back a valuable sample from the asteroid Bennu. The capsule c...
24 Sep, 2023, 09.56 AM IST
Osiris-Rex: NASA's capsule returns to Earth on Sunday with asteroid sample, here is what we knowNASA's capsule Osiris-Rex collected dust samples from asteroid Bennu and it will return to Earth on Sunday.
22 Sep, 2023, 07.52 PM IST
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubbleIt will be the biggest cosmic haul for the U.S. since the Apollo moon rocks. While NASA has returned comet dust and solar wind samples, thi...
11 May, 2021, 04.46 PM IST
NASA spacecraft touches asteroid for rare cosmic rubble grab, a first for US"I can't believe we actually pulled this off," said lead scientist Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. "The spacecraft did everyth...
21 Oct, 2020, 09.10 AM IST
- NASA probe captures first images of asteroid Bennu
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecr...
25 Aug, 2018, 01.47 PM IST
- NASA'S OSIRIS-REX mission to flyby Earth on Friday
Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) NASA's asteriod hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is all set to make a close flyby of Earth on Friday, before reachin...
22 Sep, 2017, 12.42 PM IST
- NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft imaged from Earth
Washington, Sep 9 (IANS) As NASA's asteroid-bound spacecraft OSIRIS-REx approaches Earth for its September 22 gravity assist, a ground-base...
09 Sep, 2017, 11.22 AM IST
- NASA's asteroid-bound probe to approach Earth for gravity assist
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) NASA has said its spacecraft on first asteroid sample return mission will pass about 16,000 km above the Earth on ...
01 Sep, 2017, 06.42 PM IST
- NASA probe to search for rare asteroids sharing Earth's orbit
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) While heading towards asteroid Bennu, NASA said its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to the Earth ...
13 Dec, 2016, 10.54 AM IST
- NASA mission tests thrusters on journey to asteroid
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) The US space agency has successfully maneuvered its spacecraft on way to asteroid Bennu, fine-tuning its trajecto...
10 Oct, 2016, 10.59 AM IST
NASA to launch spacecraft to near-Earth asteroidKnown as OVIRS, the instrument will measure visible and near-infrared light reflected and emitted from the asteroid and split the light int...
26 Jul, 2016, 01.16 PM IST
NASA wants your tweets, pics for asteroid mission time capsuleThe robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot-wide asteroid and return a minimum of 60 g of its surface material.
03 Sep, 2014, 03.33 PM IST