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.

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by ...

The lack of geological activity and the cold, arid climate on Mars have helped preserve this invaluable organic matter in a clay-rich sample for the past 3.7 billion years. It therefore dates from ...

A massive asteroid, 2014 TN17, is heading toward Earth at a staggering speed of 77,282 km/h, NASA has warned. While it will pass at a safe distance, its classification as a "potentially hazardous ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The asteroid ...

NASA has announced that the 540-foot-wide asteroid 2014 TN17 will pass Earth on March 26, 2025. Despite the pass being 5 million kilometers away, its designation as a potentially hazardous asteroid ...

On September 8 at Cape Canaveral 7.05pm local time Nasa launched Osiris-Rex spacecraft on a two year journey to intercept the asteroid Bennu. It will study Bennu for two years, take samples from the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

Beyond assessing collision risks, this event will help them better understand the potential effects of an asteroid passing so close to a planet. Numerical simulations already offer valuable insights.

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks passing the ...