Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...
Meteorites are messengers from the depths of time—cast-off fragments of asteroids and comets that formed alongside our sun from raw materials predating our star. But their messages are often muddled ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has returned the largest space sample collected since the Apollo program, taken from the primordial asteroid Bennu. The sample-return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission ...
An artists concept of the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft collecting a sample from the asteroid Bennu. NASA'S Goddard Space ...
A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...
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. The ...