The NASA mission – designed, built and flown by Lockheed Martin (LMT) – aims to uncover new learnings about the building blocks of life in our solar system UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE, Utah, Sept. 24 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected. "On ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

This artist's illustration shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft zooming past Earth on Sept. 22, 2017 — a maneuver designed to boost the probe’s speed and refine its course toward the asteroid Bennu.

The University of Arizona behind OSIRIS-REx talk about the space robot like it’s their baby, because it is: They built it, they raised it (it takes a village, you know), and when the time came last ...

NASA is struggling to open a capsule containing precious asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission. Luckily, there is plenty of material to study on the outside of the container. When you purchase ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are getting ...

It's not often that a deep-space robotic explorer swings back by its home planet, but NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission did just that, completing a dramatic slingshot past Earth before racing toward its next ...

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