A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

They went unsolved for over a decade until the suspect, Manhattan architect and Massapequa Park, LI, resident Rex Heuermann, 61, was arrested in 2023 for murdering seven women. “When I learned ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

NASA has proven that successful extraction of materials from asteroids is possible; this was most recently seen with the promising results of its OSIRIS-REx mission, which retrieved samples containing ...

It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of Rex S. Ramón, 60, of Alice, Texas, on March 20, 2025. Rex was a devoted husband, father, and grandfather whose love and dedication to his family ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...