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[ad_1] After spending six years in space, a Japanese spacecraft has just landed in the South Australian desert, bringing a small cache of asteroid rocks to the surface of the Earth. It is only the second time in history that materials from an asteroid have been returned to our planet. …

[ad_1] Web summit 2020 has been a wonderful three-day virtual event packed with enough start content to keep us busy until the end of the year. Since the weather has been miserable, the comfort of a home office was the perfect setting. Working from home Y remote work were topics …

[ad_1] The Nanoracks Bishop airlock module undergoes launch preparations within the NASA Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: NASA / Glenn Benson A privately funded airlock from Nanoracks will head to the International Space Station this weekend in the trunk of a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule, adding …

[ad_1] The Japanese space agency is nearing the end of a voyage of discovery that aims to shed light on the early eons of the solar system and possibly provide clues to the origins of life on Earth. But first, you will have to go on a scavenger hunt in …

[ad_1] Coober Pedy, Australia – A Japanese space probe will launch a capsule containing two samples from the 4.6 billion-year-old asteroid Ryugu onto Earth on Saturday, as scientists await the arrival of materials that could help explain the origin of life. The capsule, to be released by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration …

[ad_1] The National Science Foundation on Thursday released stunning video footage capturing the exact dramatic moment when The 900-ton platform of the Arecibo Observatory fell on the 1,000 foot wide plate below. A drone was conducting a close-up investigation of the cables still holding the platform over the platter when …

[ad_1] The map measures stars closer to the edge of the Milky Way than ever. YouTube / ESA You can’t just drive a google maps car around the Milky Way to diagram it. It is fortunate, then, that the new information compiled by the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory offers …

[ad_1] A Japanese space probe will launch a capsule containing two samples from the 4.6 billion-year-old asteroid Ryugu onto Earth on Saturday, as scientists await the arrival of materials that could help explain the origin of life. The capsule, to be released by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 space probe, …

[ad_1] Anthem BioWare Yesterday was a wild day for BioWare with two high-profile figures who quit unexpectedly, Casey Hudson (for the second time in a few years) and Mark Darrah (responsible for almost all of the Dragon Ages, including the new one). While publicly this appears to be friendly, it …

[ad_1] By PTI BEIJING: A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country’s first lunar samples has started its return journey from the moon, according to the country’s space authority. China’s Chang’e-5 probe, comprising an orbiter, lander, ascendant and return, was launched on November 24, and its lander and ascendant combination landed north …