Upon a successful return to Earth next year, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will be the first American mission to retrieve a sample from an asteroid. But NASA announced last week that the story won’t end ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

Daniel Stolte of the UA Communications team reports that the UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which will send a space probe to an asteroid for a few years before returning to Earth, is a go: OSIRIS-REx, the ...

The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.