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Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life

Photo of the Day What can a space rock tell us about life on Earth? NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a careful approach to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu in October of 2020 to collect surface samples. In September 2023, the robotic spaceship returned these samples to Earth. A recent analysis has shown, surprisingly, that [...]

SpaceX & NASA DART Mission 🔴 Live Launch

By Overlook Horizon|2021-11-24T02:34:11-05:00November 24th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: asteroid, asteroid redirect, asteroid strike, Astronauts, cape canaveral, dart, dart mission, elon musk, everyday astronaut, falcon 9, falcon 9 landing, falcon 9 launch, International Space Station, iss, Live, nasa, nasa asteroid, nasa dart mission, OLHZN, Overlook Horizon, rocket launch, space shuttle, space station, space x, SpaceX, spacex asteroid, spacex dart mission, spacex falcon 9, spacex landing, spacex launch, spacex launch live, spacex live, spacex live stream, spacex news, spacex shuttle|

DART is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact. This method will have DART deliberately collide with a target asteroid—which poses no threat to Earth— in order to change its speed and path. DART’s target is the binary, near-Earth [...]