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NASA’s Psyche Skims Mars for Gravity Assist on Course to Metal-Rich Asteroid

The close pass conserves xenon propellant by borrowing Mars’ momentum to pave the way for instrument checks before a 2029 arrival.

New Meteor Shower Traces to Asteroid Crumbling Near the Sun

OSIRIS-REx Sample Shows Bennu’s Water Flowed in Channels, Preserving Fragile Organics

Hayabusa2’s Ryugu Samples Confirm All Five DNA/RNA Bases, Pointing to Space-Born Formation Clues

Cracks in Bennu’s Boulders Solve OSIRIS‑REx Thermal Mystery

DART Impact Measurably Nudged Asteroid Pair’s Orbit Around the Sun, Study Confirms

OSIRIS-REx Study Reports Tryptophan Signal in Pristine Bennu Sample

New Analysis Finds Asteroid Belt’s Active Mass Shrinking by 0.0088% Per Million Years

Bennu Samples Tie Asteroid Color Differences to Surface Exposure Age

OSIRIS-REx Samples Show Bennu’s Presolar Stardust, Interstellar Organics, and Faster-Than-Expected Weathering

LICIACube Images Show 16 Million-Kilogram DART Ejecta That Drove Dimorphos’ Deflection

Psyche Spacecraft Snaps Distant Earth–Moon Portrait During Instrument Checkout

JWST Spectra Tie Bennu and Ryugu to Polana Asteroid Family, Peer-Reviewed Study Finds

DART Ejecta Analysis Reveals Boulder Clusters Could Tilt Dimorphos’s Orbit

Astronomers Solicit Observations to Confirm Possible First Impact on Saturn