NASA completed its first-ever sample return mission from an asteroid today, with a science capsule containing material from an asteroid landing after having traveled on a 1.2 billion-mile journey ...

The sample, collected from the 4.5 billion-year-old near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, arrived on Earth in a capsule on September 24, dropping from the ...

NASA's Osiris-REx mission has successfully returned a pristine sample of asteroid back to Earth. This cupful-or-so of space rock could shed light on the solar system's origins.

The asteroid sample hauled to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has lots of water and carbon-containing compounds, mission team members announced today (Oct. 11).

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

It's the first U.S. mission to grab a sample of an asteroid. These are the most precious space souvenirs NASA has obtained since the Apollo moon rocks , gathered between 1969 and 1972.

Sourced from a 121.6-gram sample returned to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, a small speck of material from the asteroid Bennu sits on a prepared microscope slide in an exhibition at the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx returned to Earth last month, dropping off NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample in the Utah desert, where it was rushed away to a secure NASA facility to be opened and then studied.

A crew wheels the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return capsule into a cleanroom on Sept. 24, 2023. The Bennu rocks are the most precious space souvenirs NASA has obtained since the Apollo moon rocks ...