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).

NASA scientists successfully brought an asteroid sample back to Earth in September, making them the first U.S. space agency to do so. All they have to do now is figure out how to open the Touch ...

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range.

NASA’s first asteroid sample is the most pristine sample of its kind. Now, back on Earth, the sample from asteroid Bennu has already delivered surprising findings about the early solar system ...

A NASA spacecraft briefly touched the surface of an asteroid, attempted to collect a sample of extraterrestrial rocks and then successfully propelled itself away in a history-making mission on ...

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...

This weekend will see the landing of NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx. The spacecraft visited asteroid Bennu to study, photograph, and scoop up a sample from it, ...

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.