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 ...

For those watching NASA's live video coverage of the OSIRIS-REx mission's return to Earth, there were hints that something ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission narrowly avoided a parachute failure, with an investigation revealing the cause and stressing the need ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Warren Buffett Says ...

Explore a tiny asteroid sample's cosmic secrets and its potential impact on our understanding of the universe.

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx successfully returned samples from Bennu, despite a minor parachute deployment issue caused by wiring label ...

Only a few miles from the glamor of France’s famed Riviera lies a little-known French national laboratory in large part used ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space and brought to Earth by the United States will be unveiled at NASA’s Johnson ...

The team is also analyzing a sample from asteroid Ryugu brought by the Hayabusa2 explorer of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

The capsule made it back to Earth safely with its precious asteroid samples, but NASA has confirmed a malfunction during the ...