A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Sample material from asteroid Bennu can be seen on the middle right of the container. Scientists have found evidence of both carbon and water ...

Bennu is the shape of a droplet and made of gravel and boulders barely held together by their own microgravity. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Arizona Two little screws ...

The team had hoped for 60 grams, and without even accessing the bulk sample, they're already at 70.3. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Move over, moon rocks: Space Center Houston has a new type of space stone in its showcase. "Having a piece of an asteroid is is very rare," said Paul Spana, Space Center Houston's director of ...

The Colorado-built and flown space probe returns with what's hoped to be the largest extra-terrestrial sample brought from beyond the moon. Teams from NASA and Lockheed Martin Space are readying in ...

Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, has waited nearly 20 years to get his hands on pristine specimens from an asteroid, which he says is a key to unlocking answers to ...

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey. In a flyby of Earth, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule ...

The initial glimpses of the off-Earth material are very promising. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It looks like Bennu was indeed ...

The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size ...

NASA has succeeded in returning its first sample of an asteroid to Earth, as the OSIRIS-REx mission released its capsule containing a sample taken from the asteroid Bennu early this morning. The ...

Massive cost overruns. Key deadlines slipping out of reach. Problems of unprecedented complexity, and a generation’s worth of scientific progress contingent upon solving them. That’s the current state ...