A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

Samples of asteroids contain a range of organic molecules. Do asteroids raining down on Earth explain how life started on ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is attempting one of the most delicate maneuvers in space exploration. After collecting material ...

NASA has unveiled photos of some of the asteroid rocks returned by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. NASA reveals asteroid sample NASA has unveiled photos of some of the asteroid rocks returned by the ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an asteroid? Will life eventually be wiped out by an asteroid? While we may never ...

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

TUCSON, AZ (AZFamily) — After years of planning, the University of Arizona’s latest satellite is ready to blast off and study planets outside of our solar system. Scientists said Pandora was mounted ...

Meteorite ALH84001 drove scientific interest in 1996 when researchers announced the presence of bacteria fossils. In years since, those claims have been largely debunked. When NASA scientists opened ...

In 2025, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston achieved multiple milestones across human spaceflight, research, and exploration missions. Key accomplishments included preparations for the Artemis II ...