The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, ...

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft swings by Earth on Sunday, it is expected to deliver a rare cosmic gift: a pristine sample collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. If all goes according to plan, ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the first-ever off-Earth sample depot for posterity. Perseverance built that depot on a patch of Martian ground called Three Forks over the course of five ...

The mission team used the capsule’s beacon to estimate its landing site and searched for it using a helicopter. They located it in the projected landing site, along with the parachute, around 2:47 p.m ...