A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft collected dust and pebbles from asteroid Bennu and returned the sample to Earth in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona After months struggling to open ...

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches that earlier ...

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