In an October update, NASA officials explained that the top of the canister, which has been previously estimated to hold ...
NASA thinks it knows why the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe's return capsule failed to deploy its drogue parachute as planned ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...
Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.
The sample was scooped up from the surface of 500m-wide asteroid Bennu in 2020 by Nasa's Osiris-Rex spacecraft, and then ...
A little known French national laboratory is using a unique method of optical analysis to identify the mineralogy of a ...
A remnant of the formation of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, scientists think Apophis started out in the crowded asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and was later flung into the inner ...
NASA has provided asteroid Bennu samples to researchers at the Natural History Museum in London, for an in-depth analysis ...
The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu was a smashing success. The spacecraft delivered its payload of pristine asteroid regolith in September when the sample canister ...
The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully returned samples from Bennu, despite a minor parachute deployment issue caused by wiring label ...
