July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... on the orbit and physical properties of the NEA called Bennu. These results helped NASA select Bennu as the target for the OSIRIS-REx mission, which landed on Bennu in 2018 and will return an asteroid sample to Earth in 2023...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
.... Unlike Armageddon, the size of the asteroid modelled in the study is 100 meters wide (approximately 1/5 the scale of Bennu) and not the size of Texas. The nuclear bomb also does not need to be drilled into the...
January 2020
Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets
... in the study of planetary prebiotic compounds. JAXA’s current Hayabusa2 mission at Ryugu and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at Bennu will return precious samples of these two enormous carbonaceous chondrites, allowing us to study how these important materials...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
..., when the OSIRIS-Rex space probe, launched by NASA in September 2016, returns surface samples of the asteroid Bennu, it will become clear what useful substances these soil samples contain. The Moon and near-Earth...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
..., JUNO arrived at Jupiter and sent some images back, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft jetted off towards Bennu and Philae’s final resting place was found shortly before Rosetta ended its mission by crash landing...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... approach to Earth earlier this year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is on course to rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid Bennu in August. Later in the year, an ambitious, multi-spacecraft mission to study the least explored planet in our Solar...
