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NASA team members broadcast a live feed of the Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return and recovery mission at Dugway, Utah, on September 24, 2023. (Photo by GEORGE FREY/AFP via Getty Images)
ASTEROID

Major asteroid sample brought to Earth in NASA first

NASA chief Bill Nelson said the asteroid dust ‘will give scientists an extraordinary glimpse into the beginnings of our solar system’

  • George Frey
  • Lucie Auborg
4 min read
Victoria Thiem, system safety engineer at Lockheed Martin, checks the temperature of the actual size Osiris-Rex return capsule sample during the recovery rehearsal at Lockheed Martin, Waterton Canyon campus in Littleton, Colorado on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
ASTEROID

NASA readies for dramatic return of asteroid sample to Earth

Four years after its 2016 launch, the probe landed on the asteroid Bennu and collected roughly 250 grams of dust from its rocky surface

  • Lucie Auborg
4 min read
Nuclear fusion produces much less radioactive waste than current power plants, and above all, emits no greenhouse gases. (Photo by Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Nuclear fusion breakthrough a boon for clean energy?

Nuclear fusion produces much less radioactive waste than current power plants, and above all, emits no greenhouse gases

  • Lucie Auborg
3 min read