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Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

"We can trust these results. This is extraterrestrial matter and not contamination from Earth.” This was NASA’s first sampling of an asteroid, though not humanity’s first effort. Japan’s space agency ...

The asteroid sampling mission was first conceived at the university more than 20 years ago. NASA gave the project a greenlight in 2011 as part of its New Frontiers program. Short for the Origins ...

By examining the minerals from the now dry and dusty asteroid, the researchers could tell that it once contained salty water and that there was sodium, chlorides, fluorides, carbonates and phosphates ...

There was already evidence from meteorites and another asteroid sampling mission , the Japan Space Agency's Hayabusa2, that space rocks can carry water necessary for life and biological building ...

Some 10 people killed in attack at Swedish school for adults, gunman believed among dead An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System Tiger Woods announces that his ...

This year, China is planning its first asteroid sampling mission. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch in May on a Long March 3B rocket. The mission will gather samples from the near ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who analyzed a sample of the asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth last September made an interesting and impo ...