NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers were busy in 2025, starting the year off by tracking an asteroid that put Earth on alert, followed by discoveries in ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...

2026 is set to deliver historic moon missions, groundbreaking commercial space stations and powerful new space telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...

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 ...