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

In other words, OSIRIS-REx was meant to deliver untouched asteroid chunks home to be analyzed in a lab. This brilliant plan worked. The samples landed in the Utah desert in 2023, and scientists ...

OSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016 and briefly touched down on Bennu on Oct. 20, 2020, to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid. After a journey of more than 4 billion miles, the van-sized ...

NASA is tracking two commercial airliner-sized asteroids, 2025 KH2 and 2025 KR1, set to pass Earth today with no anticipated ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...