When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve and analyze samples from an asteroid. The findings do not show evidence ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch on September 8. It's mission is to explore the asteroid Bennu — and return a sample to Earth in 2023. NASA recently released a video preview ...
Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ...