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

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

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx set out to collect a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, a cosmic time capsule that may hold clues to the origins of life in our solar system. But the journey was anything but easy.

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our solar system." ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a tantalizing venue for humankind’s search for life beyond Earth.

The family originated in the inner main belt not very far from the source regions of near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, recently visited respectively by NASA's OSIRIS-REx and ...