SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. Mr. Musk said President Trump had asked for that to occur “as soon as possible.” ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...

Through amateur — or “ham”— radio communication, sixth graders at Pine View spoke to an astronaut aboard the International ...

A January 2025 cold wave plunged Chicago into subzero temperatures, initially without snow. By late January, snowfall ...

The SETI Institute is looking for PhD/postdoctoral researchers for its 2025 Frontier Development Lab (FDL) program, which ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission landed at the ...