A NASA curation team was finally able to remove two stubborn fasteners that have been keeping the space agency from being able to retrieve the remainder of a sample collected from asteroid Bennu. The ...

Sept. 24 (UPI) --NASA has recovered a 250-gram dust sample from the Bennu asteroid on Sunday, marking the first sample return of its kind in America, the agency says. The sample was collected by ...

Recovery specialists opened the lid of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample canister and discovered some extra bits of the asteroid on the avionics deck. Reading time 2 minutes Following a nearly three-year ...

NASA has found trace amounts of carbon and water, basic ingredients for life, on a sample of dust and rock of a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid. This discovery has NASA scientist wondering, could other ...