Exciting news is soaring through the cosmos! Blue Origin has just unveiled plans for its 10th human flight, NS-30, set to launch from Launch Site One in West Texas on Tuesday,5. The countdown is on!

REx mission found minerals on asteroid Bennu that match California’s Searles Lake, offering clues about ancient water, ...

Supporting that idea, images of Bennu obtained by OSIRIS-REx show carbonate veins ranging from 3 to 15 centimeters (1 to 6 inches) on some boulders. The image above shows one of these veins. The Trona ...

"We have a wide collection of ancient meteorite samples with different chemistries, isotopic compositions, and mineralogies, these differences indicate separate parent bodies or parent asteroids ...

NASA via AP This image provided by NASA shows a top-down view of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with the lid removed, revealing the remainder of the ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special delivery that ... "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

In September 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off a special ... in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," Tim McCoy, curator of ...

DON'T MISS: First meteorite ever found in P.E.I. arrived with a literal ... samples that haven't been exposed to any of those changes, like those collected by OSIRIS-REx. "The only way this could be ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we understand about the beginnings of our solar system. Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s ...

In this video frame, Jason Dworkin holds up a vial that contains part of the sample from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource ...