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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...

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...

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...

«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...

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...

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....

– 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...

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...

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...