In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Which asteroids pose the greatest threat to Earth? How likely are they to strike, and what level of destruction could they ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

The asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission ...

From an orbit of over 186,000 miles from Earth, to Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, to College Hill: That’s the path that samples from the asteroid Bennu, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft — famous for obtaining a sample of asteroid Bennu in 2020 and now renamed OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission — will orbit the giant asteroid. Together with Ramses ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission (now OSIRIS-APEX) spent a couple of years hanging out next to the asteroid Bennu before dipping down to take a sample and return it to Earth. And NASA's DART mission ...

In 2020, a NASA spacecraft retrieved samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped them off on Earth in 2023. The space agency followed similar protocols to JAXA to protect the asteroid material ...