NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft recently dropped off precious cargo — sending a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu tumbling through Earth’s atmosphere to land in the Utah desert.

A capsule carrying samples from the asteroid Bennu arrives back on earth. It’s caught on camera as it bursts into the earth’s atmosphere and lands in the Utah desert.

Physicist Jennifer Inman has observed the aerodynamics of many spacecraft, including NASA’s space shuttles, as they launched and landed. But on 24 September she had the chance to study a rarity ...

In a hushed room of a museum in Washington, cameras and cell phones focus on a tiny piece of rock, no larger than a piece of gravel. The fragment might seem insignificant, but it is a sample taken ...

Is the key to life on Earth contained within a teaspoon of black asteroid dust that's arrived in London? Scientists at the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission is NASAs first mission to collect samples from an asteroid in this case 101955 Bennu and return to ...

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The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-APEX hovers over the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, using its thrusters to disturb ...

‘We're really lucky,’ says Dr Ashley King, a meteorite researcher at the Natural History Museum, who will be part of the team ...

As space objects go, comets and meteors are not very big. The largest asteroid, Ceres, is only about 600 miles wide.