In September 2023, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer ...

Rex mission has yielded a groundbreaking discovery from asteroid Bennu in the form of presolar grains, stardust older than ...

Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...

Rowan University geology chair Harold Connolly, Jr., Ph.D., who serves as mission sample scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

The data from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu revealed that they could be from the Polana asteroid family, along with ...

LONGUEUIL, QC, Aug. 22, 2025 /CNW/ - Canadian researchers, members of NASA's OSIRIS-REx international science team, have ...

Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson OSIRIS-REx reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the ...

The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than the solar system and clues about its violent history, ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration analyses the samples from asteroid Bennu, unveiling a complex history of ...

Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.