OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...

This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...

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 ...

It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...

Today marks the final step of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which launched in September 2016, as a small capsule containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu descends through the Earth’s atmosphere ...

After a seven-year, 3.86-billion-mile odyssey, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully delivered to Earth samples from ...

An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years across ...

Researchers at the University of Manchester's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences will study new NASA asteroid ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...