Science Feb 25 Scientists (mostly) rule out this newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth in the next decade By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Feb 08 Watch 2:45 How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of life may have been scattered… By Ali Rogin, Harry Zahn
Science Oct 07 Spacecraft on its way to investigate asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Nov 05 How NASA’s robotic prospectors could pave the way for future asteroid miners Upcoming NASA missions will help scientists understand the composition of asteroids – which could inform companies one day hoping to commercially mine asteroids. By Valerie Payré, The Conversation
Science Sep 24 WATCH: NASA holds news conference after retrieval of capsule from OSIRIS-REx In a flyby of Earth, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released the capsule containing NASA’s first asteroid samples from 63,000 miles out. The small capsule landed four hours later on a remote expanse of military land, as the mothership set off after another asteroid. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Sep 26 Watch 11:38 NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in attempt to knock it off course By Miles O'Brien, William Brangham, Courtney Norris NASA is trying an experiment to answer a question that’s straight out of science fiction. What could we do if a large object was hurtling through space on a collision course with Earth? Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien joined William Brangham… Continue watching
Dec 14 Japan space agency confirms asteroid soil inside landed capsule By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press The pan-shaped capsule was dropped by Hayabusa2 from space into the sparsely populated Australian desert. It arrived in Japan last week for research that will hopefully provide insights into the origins of the solar system and life on Earth. Continue reading
Jan 27 In Earth flyby, massive asteroid reveals a moon of its own By Joshua Barajas Earth’s close encounter with Asteroid 2004 BL86 on Monday revealed that the massive space object had a traveling companion: its own moon. Continue reading