CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft descended to an asteroid Tuesday and, dodging boulders the size of buildings, momentarily touched the surface to collect a handful of cosmic rubble for return ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that it succeeded in collecting samples for scientists ...

A space history first is occurring on Tuesday, Oct. 20. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will touch down on the asteroid Bennu to retrieve rock samples before heading back to Earth. And the whole ...

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A space mission led by the University of Arizona will make its first attempt Tuesday to retrieve a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles from Earth in what NASA is calling a historic, first-of-its ...

After a four year trek through deep space, OSIRIS-REx made history this evening as it became the first NASA spacecraft to try and collect a surface sample from an asteroid (Editor’s note: servers may ...

NASA’s first steroid sample return mission may soon see the fruits of its labor. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is ...

“We were almost a victim of our own success here,” said Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission at the University of Arizona, in a press conference. OSIRIS-REx’s mission ...

This afternoon, a NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles from Earth successfully touched the surface of an asteroid, in an attempt to grab a handful of pebbles and dust from the space rock. Data ...

The spacecraft attempted to suck up rocks and dirt from the asteroid, which could aid humanity’s ability to divert one that might slam into Earth. By Kenneth Chang [How much of Bennu did NASA’s OSIRIS ...