Originally deployed to record re-entry signals of the OSIRIS-REx return capsule, a T-shaped fiber optic cable draped across ...

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NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists studying samples from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a surprisingly complex chemical landscape at the tiniest scales.

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing ...

When it landed on Mars in 2021, the Perseverance rover set out to collect roughly 30 samples of soil from the red planet. The ...

Particles returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contain direct evidence that liquid water once flowed ...

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It happens only once every few thousand years, an asteroid large enough to reshape a continent passing close enough to see ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is closing in on the asteroid Bennu after more than two years of flight and is sending home some incredible travel photographs. This week, “super resolution” images of the ...

Mars, you see, has one-third of Earth’s gravity, making it plausible that human beings could live entire lives there and ...

Maybe it’s the Sonoran Desert, which, with some imagination, looks like a Martian landscape. For whatever reason, Arizona has a long history of space exploration, from the first moon missions to next ...