NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

In other words, OSIRIS-REx was meant to deliver untouched asteroid chunks home to be analyzed in a lab. This brilliant plan worked. The samples landed in the Utah desert in 2023, and scientists ...

OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016 and briefly touched down on Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020, to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid. After a journey of more than 4 billion miles, the van-sized ...

Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS‐REx. Meteoritics & Planetary Science , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/maps.14227 Cite This Page : ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe just nailed its second trial run for a sample ...

NASA is tracking two commercial airliner-sized asteroids, 2025 KH2 and 2025 KR1, set to pass Earth today with no anticipated ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...