Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a ...

LOS ANGELES - How did our solar system form? How can we prevent an asteroid-Earth collision? These are just some of the questions NASA hopes to answer by bringing part of an asteroid home for the ...

In a first for science, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just landed on asteroid Bennu — and it took a sample for the road. The sample, no mere piece of rubble, will revolutionize scientists' ...

When scientists cracked open the first grains from asteroid Bennu, they expected a time capsule of rock and dust. What they ...

ACTUALLY ON THE SIDE OF A LAUNCH THAT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING. OH, WELL, TODAY WAS A BIG DAY FOR NASA AS IT REVEALED ITS FIRST EVER RETRIEVED ASTRO VOID SAMPLE. PRETTY EXCITING. METEOROLOGIST HEATHER ...

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The asteroid Bennu is a scientific gem, but a potentially dangerous one: No other space rock has a higher known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling ...

Today NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launches for the asteroid Bennu. This will be the first U.S. mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid and return the goods to Earth. The spacecraft is expected to ...