Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...
Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...
Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...
NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...
Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...
NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...
On September 23, 2025, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX successfully used an Earth flyby to slingshot toward its target: potentially ...
NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...
Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has captured breathtaking images of Earth as it passed by the planet on September 23, 2025, ...
If Osiris, ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, and Tyrannosaurus rex, king of the dinosaurs, somehow had a baby, and that baby was an asteroid-bound spacecraft, it would be named OSIRIS-REx. Yes, ...