LOS ANGELES - How did our solar system form? How can we prevent an asteroid-Earth collision? These are just some of the questions NASA hopes to answer by bringing part of an asteroid home for the ...

After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

In a first for science, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft just landed on asteroid Bennu — and it took a sample for the road. The sample, no mere piece of rubble, will revolutionize scientists' ...

ACTUALLY ON THE SIDE OF A LAUNCH THAT’S GOING TO BE AMAZING. OH, WELL, TODAY WAS A BIG DAY FOR NASA AS IT REVEALED ITS FIRST EVER RETRIEVED ASTRO VOID SAMPLE. PRETTY EXCITING. METEOROLOGIST HEATHER ...

Everything went perfectly based on the data returned by the spacecraft, according to Dante Lauretta, the mission’s principal investigator and a professor at the University of Arizona Lunar and ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something NASA is calling "space gum?" ...

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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 ...

A NASA spacecraft will play a game of tag this week with a near-Earth asteroid. The mission will attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to Earth. The ...

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission found out more about the asteroid named Bennu. The spacecraft has been exploring the asteroid for two years now and have collected samples of rocks and dusts for research. It ...