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 brain drain from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could pose problems for the space agency’s ambitious science plans ...

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 ...

Fragments from an asteroid described by Nasa as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System are being studied in the UK. The ...

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The unremarkable black dust-like sample from asteroid Bennu could help shed light on some of the biggest questions about how ...

OSIRIS-APEX (the spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx) is about to face its first test in its extended mission to asteroid ...

Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina, principal investigator for OSIRIS-APEX at the University of Arizona, Tucson, stressed the ...

An ambitious schedule is falling prey to delays in new systems under development by private contractors including SpaceX and ...

Natural History Museum prepares to study pristine material gathered in Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission ...