The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

Much of what scientists know about the early Solar System comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

About exactly four years from now, the asteroid Apophis will swing past Earth on April 13, 2029. This space rock, measuring ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.