Every mystical quest features a journey riddled with challenges, a cast of colourful characters, and a treasure trove that unlocks more intrigue. The Meteorite Hunters: On the Trail of ...

The Canadian flag has taken on numerous meanings over the years. Most recently, it's been seen by many as a display of ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...

OSIRIS-REx brought back samples from Bennu, while Hayabusa2 visited Ryugu. Both missions targeted dark, carbon-rich asteroids known to contain water-bearing minerals.

The OSIRIS-REx sample containment pod is shown here, shortly after touching down in October 2023. (NASA) "The only way this could be discovered is because of controlled sample return by a ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system ...

A portion of the asteroid Bennu sample delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set into a microscope slide at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credit: Molly ...

This helped OSIRIS-REx to scoop up 121.6 g (4.29 oz), far more than the amount that would have made the mission a success. By returning the sample to Earth, the asteroid's chemical profile was ...