A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...
A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British ...
Following a preliminary assessment, NASA has announced that the asteroid samples its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft took from asteroid Bennu are rich in both water and carbon — the "building blocks of life on ...
NASA officials on Oct. 11 described water and carbon in samples retrieved from asteroid Bennu, using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which launched in 2016 and arrived at Bennu in 2018. Scientists hope ...
NASA had a big reveal party on Wednesday. The nation's first-ever asteroid samples, which were delivered last month to a desert in Utah, were shown off at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 4 ...