Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid. A NASA spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful ...

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown ...

Public pronouncements by Chinese officials on future space missions typically come true, but China is embarking on ...

"It's beautiful, it really is - certainly what we've seen of it so far," said Dr Ashley King. The UK scientist was in a select group to put first eyes and instruments on the rocky samples that ...

At 6:12 p.m. EDT on October 20, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission completed a daring journey to collect a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away and return it to Earth. OSIRIS-REx launched on ...

NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home. The minivan-sized OSIRIS ...

Ever since NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully dropped off samples taken from the asteroid Bennu in September, scientists have been poring over results from the precious cargo, the largest ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently hanging out around the asteroid known as Bennu ... Selecting where to grab that sample from is difficult due to the requirements of the sample ...

A recent study has disclosed initial findings from the samples collected during a billion-dollar NASA mission to Bennu, ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission successfully scooped up a sample of fine dust and grit from an asteroid called Bennu on Tuesday. It was the first time NASA had ever gathered a sample from an asteroid.

NASA's Osiris-Rex space craft successfully scooped ... It will be the agency's first sample collected from an asteroid. To collect its asteroid sample, Osiris-Rex had to fly through a dangerous ...