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 ...

Each second of the capsule's descent has been calculated in anticipation for NASA's first asteroid sample return mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

For the first time in U.S. history, samples from an asteroid in deep space that were captured by NASA fell to Earth and landed in the Utah desert on Sunday, ending a seven-year journey. The Osiris-Rex ...

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve environmental ...

A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That's the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a ...