The NASA mission that brought back the samples was named Osiris-Rex — a shortening of Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security, Regolith Explorer.

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These pictures are out of this ghoul-axy. Just in time for Halloween, NASA revealed that the “bones of a ghostly cosmic hand” that died 1,500 years ago are reaching out just above our heads.

NASA's Orion spacecraft captured detailed views of the deeply cratered lunar surface on its Artemis-1 mission. The capsule is currently swooping around the moon.

"These unprecedented pictures of the sun are the closest we have ever obtained," said Holly Gilbert, NASA project scientist. The orbiter flew within 48 million miles of the sun on June 15.

NASA / JPL The rover, which launched into space in July 2020, landed in an area known as Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide basin that lies just north of the Martian equator.

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Those have been turned into a 110-page ebook, titled "The Saturn System Through the Eyes of Cassini", which is free to download for iBooks, Kindles, and other ebook readers (and just as a PDF).

NASA said in a statement that New Horizons snapped a picture of a group of stars known as the “Wishing Well” when the spacecraft was about 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers) from Earth.

Nasa has released its first close-up images of Ultima Thule, a 21-mile-tall lump of space rock that lies four billion miles away on the edge of the solar system.

NASA's Juno mission took incredible new photos during its 10th trip around Jupiter. The planet's clouds look like swirling hallucinations in the images.