It’s official: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of pristine space rocks when it bopped the asteroid Bennu four years ago, more than double the mission’s official science goal, the ...

For the first time, NASA has revealed images and footage of the samples it grabbed from an asteroid. In a public broadcast, space agency officials unveiled the first images of the dark, carbon-rich ...

The first asteroid sample collected in space by NASA arrived on Earth Sunday, Sept. 24, and there are multiple events leading up to its landing. NASA’s live coverage of the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grey rocks and dust inside a silver metal cannister. It's finally open. After months of anticipation, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission ...

NASA revealed its OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample earlier this month as planned, but something was missing. We got preliminary material analysis and images of the cosmic pebbles scattered around the top of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OSIRIS-REx curation team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center begin the process of removing and flipping the TAGSAM ...

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The once inaccessible sample container has been fully opened, and NASA has released the numbers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

NASA returned its first sample of an asteroid to Earth last year, landing a sample collected from asteroid Bennu in the Utah desert in September. Researchers were able to extract 70 grams of material ...

NASA has a good problem. The space agency revealed the first scientific insights from the black asteroid pieces it collected from ancient asteroid Bennu, revealing evidence of two essential ...