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11:24pm, 19th March, 2019

Surprise! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe catches asteroid spewing bits into space

This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 19 was created by combining two images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Other image processing techniques were applied, such as cropping and adjusting the brightness and co...

Asteroid Bennu, target of NASA's sample return mission, is rotating faster over time

8:49pm, 12th March, 2019

Physics

Asteroid Bennu, target of NASA's sample return mission, is rotating faster over time

(American Geophysical Union) OSIRIS-REx finds Bennu's rotation period is speeding up by about 1 second every 100 years, according to a new study the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks from an asteroid

11:55pm, 5th March, 2019

Space

Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks from an asteroid

If there was ever any doubt that Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to , a should put those doubts to rest. The black-and-white video clip, shot by the probe’s CAM-H monitoring camera, shows the sampling horn being lowered to the sunlit surface....

9:14pm, 21st February, 2019

Space

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 team says spacecraft touches down on asteroid to grab sample

The shadow cast by the Hayabusa 2 probe and its solar panels makes an “H” shape on the surface of asteroid Ryugu during the buildup to a sample collection attempt. (JAXA Photo) Japan’s successfully touched down today on asteroid Ryugu, about 170 mill...

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

10:17pm, 6th November, 2018

Space

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

Two years after its , NASA’s is closing in on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu and sending back pictures that provide one gem of a 360-degree view. Last Friday, OSIRIS-REx captured imagery over the course of a four-hour, 11-minute period to take in...

ConsenSys blockchain studio acquires Planetary Resources asteroid venture

11:45am, 31st October, 2018

Space

ConsenSys blockchain studio acquires Planetary Resources asteroid venture

Planetary Resources President and CEO Chris Lewicki talks about the company’s satellite ambitions at the 2014 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo) After months of financial uncertainty, the Planetary Resources asteroid-mining venture says its assets hav...

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 16-hour survey

12:02am, 4th October, 2018

Space

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 16-hour survey

An artist’s conception shows the MASCOT lander sitting on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. (JAXA Illustration) A robotic probe the size of a shoebox set itself down on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 180 million miles from Earth, and conducted a 16-h...

Check out close-up views of asteroid (plus a movie) from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission

2:22am, 28th September, 2018

Space

Check out close-up views of asteroid (plus a movie) from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission

This image of the asteroid Ryugo was captured by the Hayabusa 2 probe’s ONC-T camera at an altitude of about 64 meters (210 feet). Image was taken on Sept. 21. A large boulder is at bottom left, along with a scale bar indicating the length of 1 meter...

Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid

1:08pm, 22nd September, 2018

Space

Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid

An image from the Hayabusa 2 mission’s Rover-1A shows the surface of the asteroid Ryugu at left. The bright white region is due to sunlight. The image, captured at about 11:44 a.m. JST Sept. 22 (7:44 p.m. PT Sept. 21), is blurry because it was taken...

1:41pm, 21st September, 2018

Space

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft drops off rovers at an asteroid and takes a shadowy selfie

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe takes a picture of the asteroid Ryugu from a distance of about 135 meters (440 feet) with its own shadow seen on the surface. (JAXA Photo) Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe began the climactic phase of its mission overnight by sending...

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Surprise! NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe catches asteroid spewing bits into space

Asteroid Bennu, target of NASA's sample return mission, is rotating faster over time

Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks from an asteroid

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 team says spacecraft touches down on asteroid to grab sample

See a diamond-shaped asteroid from all sides, courtesy of OSIRIS-REx mission

ConsenSys blockchain studio acquires Planetary Resources asteroid venture

Boxy MASCOT lander plops itself down on asteroid Ryugu for a 16-hour survey

Check out close-up views of asteroid (plus a movie) from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission

Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft drops off rovers at an asteroid and takes a shadowy selfie

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