Secrets of life found by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission: Surprising findings from Bennu asteroid sampleNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed groundbreaking findings from the Bennu asteroid, uncovering key ingredients for life, including phos...
NASA's Bennu asteroid sample contains carbon, water. Did building blocks of life on Earth come from asteroids?NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected the sample from the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu in October 2020. It contains carbon and water m...
NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraftNASA's spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, successfully landed in the Utah desert after a seven-year journey to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu...
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubbleIt will be the biggest cosmic haul for the U.S. since the Apollo moon rocks. While NASA has returned comet dust and solar wind samples, thi...
NASA spacecraft touches asteroid for rare cosmic rubble grab, a first for US"I can't believe we actually pulled this off," said lead scientist Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. "The spacecraft did everyth...
- NASA probe captures first images of asteroid Bennu
Washington, Aug 25 (IANS) NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecr...
- NASA'S OSIRIS-REX mission to flyby Earth on Friday
Washington, Sep 22 (IANS) NASA's asteriod hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is all set to make a close flyby of Earth on Friday, before reachin...
- NASA's asteroid-bound probe to approach Earth for gravity assist
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) NASA has said its spacecraft on first asteroid sample return mission will pass about 16,000 km above the Earth on ...
- NASA begins search for enigmatic Earth-Trojan asteroid
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) NASA said its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has started a two-week search for an enigmatic class of near-Earth objects kn...
- NASA probe to search for rare asteroids sharing Earth's orbit
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) While heading towards asteroid Bennu, NASA said its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to the Earth ...
NASA to launch spacecraft to near-Earth asteroidKnown as OVIRS, the instrument will measure visible and near-infrared light reflected and emitted from the asteroid and split the light int...
NASA wants your tweets, pics for asteroid mission time capsuleThe robotic mission will spend more than two years at the 1,760-foot-wide asteroid and return a minimum of 60 g of its surface material.