The Bennu asteroid, a space rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

On September 23, 2025, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX successfully used an Earth flyby to slingshot toward its target: potentially ...

NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of ...

70% of the sample will be preserved 'for study by scientists not yet born, using technologies not yet invented.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

If Osiris, ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, and Tyrannosaurus rex, king of the dinosaurs, somehow had a baby, and that baby was an asteroid-bound spacecraft, it would be named OSIRIS-REx. Yes, ...