Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest ...

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Asteroid Bennu, as imaged by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's camera. (NASA Goddard) Collected in October of 2020, this sample was the very first NASA ever returned from an asteroid for study by ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that scientists ... Collected in October of 2020, this sample was the very first NASA ever returned from an asteroid for ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

I'm absolutely thrilled with the results from the the first round of sample analysis. This asteroid is delivering everything I dreamed of it. The samples delivered by the Osiris-rex spacecraft from ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth. As part of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the ...

The revelation, in two studies published Wednesday, is the result of work on just 120 grams of material — about the weight of a banana — collected from Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in ...