NASA thinks it knows why the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe's return capsule failed to deploy its drogue parachute as planned ...
For those watching NASA's live video coverage of the OSIRIS-REx mission's return to Earth, there were hints that something ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Warren Buffett Says ...
A remnant of the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, scientists think Apophis started out in the crowded asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was later flung into the inner ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its payload of pristine asteroid regolith in September when the sample canister ...
Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.
The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...
A little known French national laboratory is using a unique method of optical analysis to identify the mineralogy of a ...
The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...
ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, if all goes according to plan, scientists will hit Earth with part of an asteroid. That is less alarming than it sounds, for the chunk of rock in question weighs at most a few ...