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

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket bearing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the hopes and plans of a small army of planetary scientists led by the University of Arizona, lifted from Cape Canaveral ...

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent two years observing the asteroid Bennu before it collected a ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an ...

Scientists found organic compounds in the asteroid Bennu samples that are essential for life on Earth, but it could also contain molecules that may be necessary for forming consciousness. A theory ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

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TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — After years of planning, the University of Arizona’s latest satellite is ready to blast off and study planets outside of our solar system. Scientists said Pandora was mounted ...