Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft not only spent two years ... In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid sample returned to Earth, landing in the Utah desert in ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...

OSIRIS-REx was the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, the nation's first sample return mission since the Apollo era more than 50 years ago. The spacecraft held the record for ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of life came to Earth on an asteroid.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

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“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook ... to Earth ended with a gentle touchdown in Utah's desert. The landing spot, at a military testing range, was chosen because ...

Once there, the spacecraft orbited the asteroid for nearly two years as flight engineers searched for a landing site. Upon making contact with the space rock, OSIRIS-REx fired a burst of nitrogen ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission ... and then brought that sample back to Earth for a landing in the Utah desert in September 2023. While the odds of Bennu ...