NASA Will Need Your Help Mapping Asteroid Bennu

9 Mrz 20198 Mrz 2019

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is simple — click on the boulders you see in a detailed image of a distant space rock. By Meghan Bartels |…

Diamond Asteroids: How Bennu and Ryugu Got Their Fancy Shapes

9 Nov 20188 Nov 2018

The striking diamond shapes of the space rocks Ryugu and Bennu — the targets of the sample-return missions Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx, respectively — apparently result from the near-Earth asteroids' rubble-pile…

NASA’s Latest Mission Will Attempt To Land on an Asteroid—And Bring a Piece Home

26 Aug 201625 Aug 2016

Earth lives in the middle of a shooting gallery. We are surrounded by thousands of asteroids that whiz close to our planet. While we don’t know of an imminent threat…

NASA Wants to Turn This Asteroid Into an Art Gallery

21 Feb 201620 Feb 2016

For emerging artists, finding gallery space to exhibit your art can be tough, especially if your art caters to niche interests (like, say, Sonic erotica). But luckily for all you…