It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...
The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.
After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid that will ...
This collage shows six planetary radar observations of 2011 AG5 a day after the asteroid made its close approach to Earth on ...
On Sunday morning, a capsule the size of a mini-fridge dropped from the skies over western Utah, carrying a first-of-its-kind ...
You may have heard about a NASA probe that successfully brought some samples from a deep-space asteroid back to Earth. It ...
An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years across ...
NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.