Following him, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, Dante Lauretta showed four more finely detailed…
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As Amazon Launches Project Kuiper, Astronomers Debate How to Fix a Satellite-Filled Sky
“It was always clear that satellites would have this effect, because all…
Amazon Is Going to Fill the Sky With Satellites. Astronomers Aren’t Happy
Representatives from SpaceX did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment. But…
What Will Plants Be Like on Alien Worlds?
Duffy and Haworth speculate that on remote planets, communities of purple bacteria…
How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
The NASA recovery team began by taking samples of the desert ground…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth
Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx…
The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn
On September 12, ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed…
A Pair of Sun Probes Just Got Closer to Solving a Solar Enigma
The blazing surface of the sun froths with an extremely hot electrically…
NASA Didn’t Find Aliens—but if You See Any UFOs, Holler
Seventy six years after the infamous Roswell incident, when a high-altitude balloon—or…
No, This Is Not an Alien. Here’s Why
“What happened yesterday in the Mexican Congress was a spectacle, with information…