Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

70% of the sample will be preserved 'for study by scientists not yet born, using technologies not yet invented.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

If Osiris, ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, and Tyrannosaurus rex, king of the dinosaurs, somehow had a baby, and that baby was an asteroid-bound spacecraft, it would be named OSIRIS-REx. Yes, ...

Your browser does not support the video element. NASA's Osiris-Rex mission successfully scooped up a sample of fine dust and grit from an asteroid called Bennu on ...

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