The asteroid material at the sampling site was less dense than researchers predicted—about one-sixth the density of a typical rock on Earth—and the touch-and-go landing launched a spray of ...

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

NASA has set a schedule for coverage of its first asteroid sampling mission's return to earth. The Origins, Spectral interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx recently dropped off a sample from asteroid Bennu, and now it will continue on to a new target: asteroid Apophis.

Scientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — After a seven-year mission that launched from Florida’s Space Coast, NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft is heading home. NASA’s Osiris Rex spacecraft will release a ...

BEIJING, 29 May (BelTA - China Daily) - China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid and retrieve its samples for ...

Tianwen 2 is China's first-ever mission to an asteroid or a comet, and just its second planetary exploration effort overall. The first, Tianwen 1 , sent an orbiter and a rover to Mars in 2020.