The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

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

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex team has discovered evidence in its asteroid sample rocks suggesting Bennu was once part of an ancient ocean world.

NASA's spacecraft OSIRIS-REx reached asteroid Bennu on Dec. 3, 2018. After surveying Bennu, NASA plans to collect samples and send them back to Earth.

You can zoom in on photos posted to the NASA website to see more detail. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it into ...

Scientists said they got more material than expected from the Osiris-Rex mission during its seven-year journey to the asteroid Bennu.

On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth and dropped a sample of asteroid Bennu to Utah's West Desert. The mission went "absolutely perfectly," and NASA scientists hope the sample will ...

After the OSIRIS-REx scientists released their first images of Bennu online, May emailed Lauretta a stereoscopic image he had made to render the asteroid's surface in 3D.