By Dean Murray There was concern before a spacewalk on Thursday, May 1, when an astronaut's glove appeared to have a slice in it. NASA mission control asked Anne McClain aboard the International Space ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ancient asteroid back to Earth has revealed that the building blocks of ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space rock Bennu.

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth. As part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the DOD's Utah Test and Training Range.

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA Studies of the pristine asteroid sample material returned to Earth by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to better understand the solar system’s early history and the origins of materials ...