Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...

The historic attempt to sample the asteroid Bennu could provide clues to the origins of our solar system—and of life itself. Working like a reverse vacuum cleaner, the sampler head of the OSIRIS ...

The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. (Keegan Barber/NASA) But the amino acids collected from Bennu are in both left-handed and right ...

It’s not the first (or second) spacecraft to burgle an asteroid. But it brought back the largest sample to date: a whopping 121.6 grams of pristine material from the solar system’s dawn.

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer, launched in 2016.The robotic spacecraft completed its 4 ...

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which launched in 2016, scooped up bits of dust, soil and rocks from the asteroid Bennu and then brought them to Earth in 2023. The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid is ...

This would not be the first spacecraft to attempt to collect matter from an asteroid. JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, had already done so. Their first attempt, when Hayabusa 1 ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Judge awards $6.6 ...

This timelapse of the asteroid Donaldjohanson was made from a series of images NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured during its April 20 flyby. This timelapse shows images captured approximately every ...

The spacecraft’s sample container kept the Bennu sample airtight, so these evaporites stayed intact. These results suggest that the asteroid used to be wet and muddy.

The spacecraft will also descend to the asteroid's surface for a "touch-and-go" similar to the way Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft and NASA's OSIRIS-REx sampled their asteroids.