A closeup of Bennu, showing the asteroid’s rough surface with many boulders. Credit: Nasa/Goddard/University of Arizona On Thursday, Dec. 12, NASA announced that ...

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, ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission. "The findings do not show evidence for life itself, but they do suggest the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images of asteroid Bennu samples taken by a scanning electron microscope.

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 ...

After overcoming significant obstacles, NASA’s $20 Million Mission to the “God of Chaos” Asteroid is ready for launch. This ...

When NASA’s only major concerns for the OSIRIS-REx launch on Thursday are some fluffy white clouds, you know the mission is in good shape. The mission, led by the University of Arizona’s Lunar and ...

HOUSTON—Two solar-powered NASA planetary mission spacecraft have achieved recent deep-space milestones: Juno while orbiting Jupiter and Osiris-Rex while outbound on its seven-year sample return ...