Click Here to Read: NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters.  The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the Solar System By Georgina Torbet on The Verge Website on  September 24, 2023,

OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Image: NASA/Keegan Barber  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read:  Earth’s Hidden Eighth Continent Is No Longer Lost: We’ve finally mapped all of Zealandia by Tim  Newcomb on the Popular Mechanics website on September 25, 2023.
Zealandia.  Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Read:  Asteroid Bennu could shatter Earth. Here’s how Sunday’s OSIRIS-REx mission will stop it: There’s a higher chance of the asteroid striking the Earth than you finding a four-leaf clover. Scientists have 160 years to deflect it by Noa Leach on the Science Focus website on September 23, 2023.

Asteroid101955 Bennu.  Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Common.

Click Here to Read:  Neanderthal Genes Are Linked to Severe Covid Risk Study in Italy’s worst pandemic hot spot sheds light on why some people fell seriously ill and others didn’t by Margherita Stancati in The Wall Street Journal on September 16, 2023.

Click Here to Read: Why the earliest galaxies are sparking drama and controversy among astronomers by Regina G. Barber, Rachel Carlson, Berly McCoy and Rebecca Ramirez on the NPR website on September 18, 2023.

INASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail mage: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STSc Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.