The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

In 2029, one of the solar system's many asteroids will pass Earth close enough to see with the naked eye. But asteroid ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

Jason Dworkin, a project scientist with OSIRIS-REx at Nasa, described the findings as adding "major ... that completed the ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.

Having completed its first mission, OSIRIS-REx has a new goal, and a new name — OSIRIS-APEX (APEX = APophis EXplorer) — as it will rendezvous with asteroid Apophis just after the close encounter with ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission has uncovered invaluable samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ancient salty minerals and amino ...