A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

The UA is headed back out to space with a new NASA mission in roughly three weeks. Asteroid hunter OSIRIS-REx is scheduled for liftoff on Thursday, Sept. 8. The pretty damn cool science mission, led ...

NASA is struggling to open a capsule containing precious asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission. Luckily, there is plenty of material to study on the outside of the container. When you purchase ...

In September 2023, we reported on the conclusion of the first phase of the OSIRIS-Rex (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) as its return sample ...

Just as the University of Arizona-led spacecraft OSIRIS-REx prepares to begin orbiting the asteroid Bennu, it turns out the consequences of President Trump’s continued government shutdown over a ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...