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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 ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.
Scientists recently completed computer simulations of what would happen to Earth if it were impacted by an asteroid with a ...
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...
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 ...
Jim Free, associate administrator at NASA, is set to retire on Feb. 22 after three decades of service.
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
BREVARD COUNTY • FLORIDA—NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced his retirement on Wednesday, effective Saturday, February 22.