NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

Smithsonian and NASA scientists set out to collect an asteroid sample that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

In late September 2023, the samples from OSIRIS-REx were delivered back to Earth inside a capsule. Whilst NASA tracked and retrieved the sample return capsule, ready to analyze the samples ...

This mission could also conduct a sample return, complementing the Hayabusa 1 and 2, OSIRIS-REx missions, and future attempts to explore NEAs. Asteroid YR4 was discovered on December 27 ...

The now-operational New Frontiers missions include New Horizons, which began in 2006 and explored Pluto in 2015, Juno (2011), which studies Jupiter, and OSIRIS-REx (2016), which sampled material ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...