At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

(CNN) — Bennu is one of the most hazardous known asteroids in our solar system. Thanks to a visit by a NASA spacecraft, scientists have a much greater understanding of the near-Earth asteroid, its ...

Update: On Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx’s sample return capsule separated from its parent craft and reentered the atmosphere, touching down in the Utah desert. NASA retrieved the samples and secured them in a ...

In a study released Wednesday, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) ...

Wes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock) features a story within a story, two tightly connected narratives whirling around one another under the force of their collective ...

A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago — is expected to ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu has been keeping our planet company for a long time. Bennu, new research suggests, has been in an orbit that brings it near to Earth for 1.75 million years. The ...

The asteroid Bennu is a scientific gem, but a potentially dangerous one: No other space rock has a higher known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling ...

Today NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launches for the asteroid Bennu. This will be the first U.S. mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid and return the goods to Earth. The spacecraft is expected to ...

If all goes well this Sunday morning, a two-ounce clue to the mystery of the universe will land in the Utah desert. That’s when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to swing by Earth and drop a ...

Asteroid Bennu shows no signs of a “fifth force” affecting its orbit, researchers report A hypothetical “fifth force” could tug on asteroids, if it exists. But the asteroid Bennu shows no signs that ...