KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

This summer, a mission originally named in Zheng He’s honor but now known as Tianwen-2 will propel China deeper into space than ever before — its first foray into the asteroid belt.

OSIRIS-REx, the NASA New Frontiers mission being led by the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab, will launch in 2016, catch up with an asteroid named Bennu in 2018, and return a sample of it to Earth ...

They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and salt, according to NASA. Named after an Egyptian bird, Bennu contains special minerals such as salts, phosphates, ammonia and ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness.

For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and in 2020 collected samples of rock and dust that, according to a study published in January, bore some of ...

Scientists from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences were among the first in the world chosen to analyze samples retrieved by NASA ’s OSIRIS-REx mission, a seven-year endeavor to collect ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a spacecraft about the size of a van, on a mission to study a distant asteroid named Bennu. This diamond-shaped “rubble pile” asteroid orbits close to Earth every ...

NATURE Asteroid Bennu could trigger a global winter lasting more than 3 years and here’s what’s known A report published in Science Advances details when the asteroid could collide with Earth ...

The modest container was holding samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away, and had been traveling through the dark corridors of space for years.