The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Two stories under the Physics Building, the particle accelerator in Purdue's PRIME Labs produces data that researchers have ...

These amazing discoveries would not have been possible without NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the ...

The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the odds of Bennu impacting Earth may sound alarming, they're not entirely unexpected ...

Bennu was the target for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission, which touched down briefly on the space rock in October 2020 to gather over 4 ounces of material, and then brought that sample ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking ...