In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ...

REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better understanding of the past.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...

Asteroids are fragmentary remnants of pre-existing parent bodies from early in our Solar System’s history that have since ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...