Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. It won’t be alone when a cruise ship-sized asteroid passes within 32,000 kilometers (19,883 miles) of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency announced that its new Ramses spacecraft will be able to… Read More »
Move over, moon rocks: There’s a new kind of space rock on display at Space Center Houston. The official visitor center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Friday, March 1, became only the second place in the world where the public can view a sample of asteroid Bennu collected and returned to Earth by the… Read More »
Scientists are currently examining bits and pieces fitted, packaged and labeled from asteroid Bennu, the cosmic mother lode delivered by NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer mission. This seven-year journey, known in astronomical parlance as OSIRIS-REx, brought the goods home via a sample return box that came to a complete… Read More »