Samples from a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid will land in Utah this Sunday, the first U.S. mission of its kind that could potentially give scientists more insight into the origins of life and the ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the ...

The asteroid Bennu is a scientific gem, but a potentially dangerous one: No other space rock has a higher known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling ...