Astronomers use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look for planets in the process of forming around baby stars. The powerful space telescope delivered the goods quickly, albeit unexpectedly. These baby planets are forming into swirling clumps of gas and dust called protoplanetary disks, accumulating more mass as they do so. Humanity has imaged… 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 »