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NASA’s first asteroid sample streaks through Earth’s atmosphere, parachutes into Utah desert

Steve Gorman - September 24, 2023

The gumdrop-shaped capsule, released from the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx as the mothership passed within 67,000 miles of Earth hours earlier.

More evidence of ‘alien’ origins of life — Japan spacecraft finds RNA base on asteroid Ryugu

Sandhya Ramesh - March 22, 2023

Bengaluru: The hypothesis that comets and asteroids deposited the building blocks of life on Earth millions of years ago has received yet another boost....

NASA spacecraft finds signs that highrise-sized asteroid near Earth once had water

Sandhya Ramesh - December 13, 2018

The finding made by NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is particularly noteworthy because we are yet to figure out how water came to be on Earth.

It was a big week for space, and here’s how wind sounds on Mars

Sandhya Ramesh - December 9, 2018

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Topic: Osiris-Rex spacecraft

NASA’s first asteroid sample streaks through Earth’s atmosphere, parachutes into Utah desert

More evidence of ‘alien’ origins of life — Japan spacecraft finds RNA base on asteroid Ryugu

NASA spacecraft finds signs that highrise-sized asteroid near Earth once had water

It was a big week for space, and here’s how wind sounds on Mars

On Camera

YourTurn

Guidelines for YourTurn submissions

Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Defence

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

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