Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating freshwater lakes ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Moments after the double grand march at the conclusion of the 2026 Carnival season, the monarchs of the Rex Organization and of the Mistick Krewe of Comus, founded respectively in ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .

In a stunning feat of precision and chemistry-driven exploration, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission intercepted a speeding asteroid more than 200 million miles from Earth, collected samples from its surface, ...

How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an asteroid? Will life eventually be wiped out by an asteroid? While we may never ...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket bearing the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft and the hopes and plans of a small army of planetary scientists led by the University of Arizona, lifted from Cape Canaveral ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...

Amirali Aghazadeh receives funding from Georgia Tech. When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing.