The historic collection of a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday was almost too successful. Some of the sample is leaking into space, according ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

This small central speck is the first image of a spacecraft on its way home, carrying with it a sample from an asteroid that is hundreds of millions of years old. The spacecraft is NASA’s OSIRIS ...

A week after collecting a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will stow the sample on Tuesday to protect it from leaking into space.

In just under a year, on Sept. 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx sample collector — a basket full of asteroid dust and rocks — will return to Earth's surface.

Brian May, the guitarist for popular band Queen, revealed that he helped NASA return its first-ever asteroid sample from space during a Sunday appearance on NASA TV.

The Ax-4 mission is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 8:22 a.m. ET on Tuesday, June 10. You can catch the action live right here. By Ellyn Lapointe Updated June 10, 2025 ...

Japanese scientists have gotten their first look inside the capsule container of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, and even the first glance is promising.

In a nice flat spot in the Jezero Crater on Mars, there are 10 titanium tubes on the ground. They're mostly stuffed with Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, and in May 2021 the spacecraft headed back to Earth to drop that sample off. This week. the spacecraft ...

This finding reveals that dust in starburst galaxies can skew distance measurements, which may impact how astronomers calculate the expansion rate of the universe and interpret other cosmic structures ...