How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an ...

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

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

NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

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 ...

HOUSTON, Texas (ABC4) – OSIRIS-Rex is continuing to make NASA scientists work hard to get answers. The space capsule’s sample delivered nearly 10 more grams of sample from the Asteroid Bennu than ...

A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say ...

Dugway • A NASA capsule returning more than 200 million miles from the surface of asteroid Bennu, which scientists hope contains clues to the origins of our universe, landed among the sand and scrub ...

UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE—Yes, it came from outer space. An extraterrestrial express delivery package from afar has landed safe and sound on Earth, bringing a multimillion-mile journey billions of ...

Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The spacecraft is now undergoing environmental testing at the company’s Space Systems facilities near Denver. OSIRIS-REx ...