www.scientificamerican.com5 months agoScienceNASA's New Asteroid Sample Is Already Rewriting Solar System HistoryMeteorites offer insights into the early solar system. NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back asteroid samples from Bennu. [ more ]
www.scientificamerican.com9 months agoScienceNASA Lab's Workforce Woes Threaten Major Space MissionsNASA's Psyche mission, which aims to visit a metal-rich asteroid, has finally launched after a year-long delay. Scientists hope that the mission will shed light on the role of metal-rich asteroids in the early solar system. [ more ]