This week, watch an asteroid sample return to Earth, learn why giant pandas have “jet lag,” see a 2,000-year-old child’ shoe and more.
It’s the little spacecraft that could. On September 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx probe launched with a lofty goal to become NASA’s first mission to collect a sample from a near-Earth asteroid and bring it to our planet. Each step of the seven-year journey has been an unexpected one, full of challenges and record-setting moments that are begging for the Hollywood treatment.
Dig this A child’s shoe was uncovered during an excavation in an Austrian village — and the laces are still intact after more than 2,000 years. The leather shoe, seen above, was likely made in the second century BC in Dürrnberg, according to researchers. The artifact is believed to have remained well-preserved due to rock salt, which was mined in the village as early as the Iron Age.
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