Now, as NASA prepares for what will be a months-long investigation of the asteroid, the OSIRIS-REx team has revealed the most stunning images of the rock so far. Captured from orbit by the probe ...

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

Indeed, in the cosmic images below you'll glimpse some of the ... and even spy the shadowed moon, too. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft — which traveled to the rubbly asteroid Bennu to successfully ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

Mission control had an inkling that the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft exceeded expectations when, in October 2020, it successfully grazed the surface of Bennu and captured so much material that it began ...

Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission from the asteroid Bennu reveal further evidence of water, organics and other ...

After four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on the asteroid Bennu to collect samples of the ancient rock. Six months later, part of the spacecraft began its journey ...

The nitrogen burst captured a 4.29-ounce (121.6 grams) sample in the process. In October 2023, the sample was brought to Earth aboard OSIRIS-REx's capsule, which reached speeds of up to 27,000 mph ...