To Bennu and Back — unlocking the secrets of an asteroid
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016, bound for the 500-metre-diameter near-Earth carbon-rich asteroid Bennu. In September 2023, it successfully returned 122 g of asteroid regolith back to Earth, since when scientists around the world
Finding and understanding the nature of the first stars at 'Cosmic Dawn' is one of the most important and most ambitious goals for modern astrophysics. The first populations of stars produced the first chemical elements heavier than helium and formed the first small protogalaxies, which then evolved
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