The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will award its 2025 Michael Collins Trophy to Margaret Hamilton for Lifetime Achievement and the OSIRIS-REx Team for Current Achievement. These annual ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

This is an illustration provided by SpaceX shows the SpaceX Starship human lander design that will carry ... from video released by NASA, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches the surface of asteroid ...

Solomon’s research program combines both applied and fundamental approaches to better understand the design principles of metabolic flux ... study samples from the asteroid Bennu retrieved by ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid ... on they would use the material collected by NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...

Specifically, he helped design processes and facilities to shield the samples ... In 2016, NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to gather samples from the asteroid, which hurtles through space at ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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, ...