NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Seeing the invisible, that’s what a small group of scientists at Los Alamos National Labs are trying to do with data recovered from a near-Earth asteroid and ...

In 2004, a much bigger asteroid called Apophis briefly rated a four before ... NASA plans to use the same craft that landed on the asteroid Bennu and returned samples to Earth in 2023.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast and a member of one of Nasa's sky surveys that searches and tracks ...

Now that OSIRIS-REX has finished with Bennu, it’s been renamed OSIRIS-APEX, and it’ll intercept the asteroid Apophis which has a series of uncomfortably close approaches over the ...

Bennu is a pretty ordinary carbonaceous ... NASA has renamed in OSIRIS-APEX, and it’s now preparing to intercept the asteroid Apophis. This time the mission isn’t primarily to ...

In 2016, NASA launched an awesome mission to catch up with asteroid Bennu, 320 million kilometers ... and will attempt to get up close to asteroid 99942 Apophis following a close encounter ...

The US OSIRIS-REx mission (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023.

Until the Bennu samples were analyzed ... has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX and will now be used to explore the asteroid Apophis ...