A pristine asteroid sample that could serve as a time capsule from the early days of our solar system has finally been revealed. The rocks and dust contain water and a large amount of carbon, said ...

The space agency will livestream the event on Wednesday. See below for full details on how to watch. The OSIRIS-REx mission marked NASA’s first-ever sample retrieval from a distant asteroid in a ...

What the sample could reveal When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft closely approached Bennu three years ago, it extended a Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism head, or TAGSAM, toward the asteroid and ...

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