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Artist's conception of OSIRIS-REx landing on an asteroid.

NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development

05.16.2013
OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid, is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
Artist's rendition of OSIRIS-REx orbiting an asteroid.

NASA Spacecraft Will Visit Asteroid with New Name

05.01.2013
The asteroid that will be explored by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has a new name, thanks to a third-grade student in North Carolina.
LRO LROC after view of GRAIL-A (Ebb) impact.

NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell

03.19.2013
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) watched as the twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft were intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon's north pole.
Perry Gerakines measures how much far-ultraviolet light an ice sample absorbs using a spectrometer.

Goddard Lab Works at Extreme Edge of Cosmic Ice

02.27.2013
Behind locked doors, in a lab built like a bomb shelter, Goddard scientists make something ordinary yet truly alien: ice. Called amorphous ice, it's perfect for recreating some key chemistry of space.
Artist's concept of LRO in orbit.

LRO Featured in Special Issue of Planetary Journal

02.12.2013
Scientific observations made by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission are the subject of the latest special edition of the Journal of Geophysical Research Planets.
This is an artist's concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft near asteroid 1999 RQ36.

New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard

02.07.2013
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission studies an asteroid up close, one goal will be to measure the Yarkovsky effect -- one of the factors that can alter the path of a small object.
IMage of the Mona Lisa painting.

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to LRO at the Moon

01.17.2013
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists beamed an image of the Mona Lisa to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
Linné Crater on the Moon

Planetary CSI: Crater Science Investigations

11.05.2012
LRO gives us a closer look at the moon's pristine Linné Crater, which can tell us a lot about the history of Earth and other rocky planets.
Simulated image of Asteroid 1999 RQ36

NASA Announces Asteroid-Naming Contest for Students

09.04.2012
Students worldwide have the opportunity to name the asteroid that NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will visit. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission will return samples from the asteroid for analysis on Earth.
Radar data indicate that the walls of Shackleton crater may hold ice.

Walls of Lunar Crater May Hold Patchy Ice, LRO Radar Finds

08.30.2012
Scientists using the Mini-RF radar on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) have estimated that as much as 5-10% of material, by weight, inside the moon's permanently shadowed Shackleton crater could be patchy ice.
LAMP Instrument

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere

08.15.2012
The Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) spectrometer on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has made the first spectroscopic observations of helium in the moon's tenuous atmosphere.
Carbonaceous Meteorite Chip

Testing at Goddard: The Astrobiology Analytical Lab

08.03.2012
In Goddard's Astrobiology Analytical Lab, scientists look for clues to two of the world's biggest mysteries: How did we get here? And are we alone? The answers may lie in carbon-rich meteorites.
Artist's concept of excess left-hand aspartic acid created in asteroids and delivered to Earth via meteorite impacts

Meteorite Fragments Reveal a Clue to How Life Turned Left

07.25.2012
The work offers the strongest evidence so far that liquid water inside an asteroid leads to a strong preference for left-handed over right-handed forms of some common amino acids found in proteins.
Surrounded by darkness, Dr. Josh Sebree in a tie dyed lab coat and goggles changes the colors of liquids in beakers.

Students Competing in Chemistry Olympiad Visit NASA Goddard

07.23.2012
Nearly 300 of the world's top chemistry students came to Goddard on July 23, 2012, as part of the 44th International Chemistry Olympiad.
Elevation (left) and shaded relief (right) image of Shackleton, a 21-km-diameter (12.5-mile-diameter) permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole.

Ice Content Estimated for Crater at Moon's South Pole

06.20.2012
The laser altimeter on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton crater at the moon's south pole.
Artist concept of OSIRIS-REx

Asteroid Nudged by Sunlight: Most Precise Measurement of Yarkovsky Effect

05.24.2012
Scientists working on the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission have measured their target's drift, caused by the subtle "push" of sunlight.
Artist's concept of the OSIRIS spacecraft

NASA Mission Wants Amateur Astronomers to Target Asteroids

04.18.2012
A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects and study their characteristics.
The renowned

LRO Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone

04.18.2012
A new NASA visualization lets everyone see Earth rise from the lunar horizon, as the Apollo 8 astronauts did when they took the iconic 'Earthrise' photo on December 24, 1968.
An antarcticmeteorite analyzed in the study

Meteorites Reveal Multiple Ways to Make Life's Components

03.09.2012
New NASA research suggests that, in space, there is more than one way to make the crucial components of life known as amino acids, and this increases the likelihood that life could have emerged elsewhere in the universe.
Artist's concept of comet harpoon

NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return

12.13.2011
The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet racing through the solar system at 150,000 miles per hour may not be to land on it. So researchers are working on a harpoon that can be fired from a distance.

Asteroids, Mars and Drought Among NASA News Highlights at AGU

12.01.2011
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the 2011 fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Complete list of NASA-related AGU news briefings
The paths left by astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell on both Apollo 14 moon walks are visible in this image.

LRO Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites

09.06.2011
NASA's LRO captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites, revealing the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored these areas.
Artistic representation of a meteorite and nucleo bases

DNA Building Blocks Can Be Made in Space

08.08.2011
NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life.
Mosaic of LRO Highlights, Credit: NASA/Goddard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LRO Shows Us the Moon As Never Seen Before

06.21.2011
LRO has forever changed our view of the moon, literally bringing it into sharper focus and showing us the whole globe in unprecedented detail.
his is one of the Tagish Lake meteorite fragments. Credit: Michael Holly, Creative Services, University of Alberta.

Asteroid Served up "Custom Orders" of Life's Ingredients

06.09.2011
Some asteroids may have been "factories" capable of churning out life's ingredients, but one appears to have been less like a rigid assembly line and more like a flexible diner that doesn't mind making changes to the menu.
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