An artist's depiction of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collecting a sample from asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample is coming home. OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, took a ...
The largest sample returned from an asteroid could contain insights into our solar system's past and the origin of life on Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Samples of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu are about to touch down on our planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's first-ever ...
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, ...
NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016. The Origins-Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft performed a ...