Cape Canaveral, Florida - NASA on Thursday evening launched a space probe called OSIRIS-Rex to chase down a dark, potentially dangerous asteroid called Bennu. The probe will take a sample of the asteroid and -- in a US space first -- bring the sample back to Earth. "NASA did it again!" Jim Green, Planetary Science Division director at NASA, said at a post-launch … [Read more...]
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