Marina Barcenilla was studying the chemical makeup of interstellar bodies when she realized she could marry her two passions ...

The spacecraft will orbit the asteroid for more than a year doing science and selecting a site before collecting a pristine sample in a pogo-stick like motion. Safely there: University of Arizona ...

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023. Released from the OSIRIS-REx craft, the sample return ...