The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.
After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid that will ...
It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...
On Sunday morning, a capsule the size of a mini-fridge dropped from the skies over western Utah, carrying a first-of-its-kind ...
A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has ... biggest haul from beyond the moon. Preserved building blocks ...
This collage shows six planetary radar observations of 2011 AG5 a day after the asteroid made its close approach to Earth on ...
An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years across ...
Japan is the only other country to have delivered an asteroid sample to Earth. But its two missions collected significantly ...
After a seven-year, 3.86-billion-mile odyssey, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully delivered to Earth samples from ...
A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...
Hello, friends, and welcome back to This Week in Space. Hurricane season is in full swing, but this week, solar weather is ...
