On its way to the Trojan swarms, the spacecraft made a pit stop at a rock named Dinkinesh — and the images it sent back revealed that this asteroid has its own moon.
Tag: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA Reveals First Pictures of Osiris-Rex Asteroid Samples
Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.
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Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
Through partnerships and 3-D printing, NASA is plotting how to build houses on the moon by 2040.
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Astronaut Returns Home After an Unplanned Full Year in Space
The trip to space was only supposed to last six months for Frank Rubio, but technical difficulties kept his crew in orbit a little longer — 371 days.