The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 ...

The historic attempt to sample the asteroid Bennu could provide clues to the origins of our solar system—and of life itself.

A NASA spacecraft will attempt to take a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu, and Canadian technology made it possible to map out the best spot to take the sample.

NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life Asteroid Bennu keeps delivering new discoveries.

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

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 ...

Sourced from a 121.6-gram sample returned to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, a small speck of material from the asteroid Bennu sits on a prepared microscope slide in an exhibition at the ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Sampling an asteroid NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission traveled to the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu and sent home a small capsule containing a sample in September 2023.

NASA's NEAR Shoemaker mission broke new ground by becoming the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid—433 Eros—before making a controlled crash landing on its surface in 2001.