UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE—Yes, it came from outer space. An extraterrestrial express delivery package from afar has landed safe and sound on Earth, bringing a multimillion-mile journey billions of ...

A capsule containing 2 ounces of rocky material from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid Bennu has landed safely in the Utah desert after a seven-year mission in space. When you purchase through ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:55 a.m. EDT (1455 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

NASA's asteroid sampling spacecraft OSRIS-APEX will have an exciting new mission in 2029, when it will watch an exciting asteroid encounter like no other in recorded human history. The craft, formerly ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On the morning of September 24, a space capsule containing a ...

The famed mission of the NASA OSIRIS-REx is now coming to an end which is not because it is defunct or canceled, but because the spacecraft has completed its mission to retrieve asteroid samples from ...

The asteroid Bennu is a scientific gem, but a potentially dangerous one: No other space rock has a higher known probability of hitting Earth in the next 200 years. NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling ...

NASA scientists awaiting the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft's return will greet it with considerably more gray hair and wrinkles than when they saw it leave the launchpad. The crewless spacecraft has traveled ...

The seven-year Osiris-Rex mission ended on Sunday with the return of regolith from the asteroid Bennu, which might hold clues about the origins of our solar system and life. By Katrina Miller A ...