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OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta told New Scientist that asteroid Bennu may have been "an ancient ocean world."

Sample From Distant Asteroid Shows Signs of Originating on Ocean World

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's team has finally managed to pry off the last two stuck fasteners of the container that holds most of the Bennu asteroid sample.

NASA Finally Rips Lid Off Stubborn Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists are hard at work sifting through samples from an ancient asteroid, and what they've found so far has been fascinating.

Scientists Surprised by Samples Recovered From Ancient Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Announces Asteroid Samples Contain Both Water and Carbon

NASA Announces Asteroid Samples Contain Both Water and Carbon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have been poring over the samples collected by OSIRIS-REx, cracking open the canister to find an abundance of dark particles.

Scientists Surprised by Abundance of Material in Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Crack Open Lid of Canister Holding Asteroid Sample

Scientists Crack Open Lid of Canister Holding Asteroid Sample

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to release a "mini-fridge size capsule" over the Utah desert this week.

NASA Probe to Drop Off Asteroid Samples After 7 Years in Deep Space

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers have admitted that it's "theoretical" to put a giant mesh bag around an asteroid to build space cities — but that it's technically feasible.

Scientists Propose Building City Inside Giant Bag Around Entire Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bennu, the asteroid on which NASA landed a spacecraft to gather samples, seems to be hollow and gradually crumbling apart.

Science & Energy

NASA Data Appears to Show That Giant Asteroid Is Hollow

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Shutting Spacecraft Door Early to Keep Asteroid Chunks From Falling Out

NASA Shutting Spacecraft Door Early to Keep Asteroid Chunks From Falling Out

By Victor Tangermann

OSIRIS-REx took such a big bite out of the surface of Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, it's "mouth" is jammed open, with bits of asteroid rubble falling out.

NASA Spacecraft Grabbed Too Many Asteroid Chunks and Now They’re Drifting Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has finally released footage from when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu's surface to collect a bunch of space rocks.

Science & Energy

Watch NASA’s Spacecraft Touch Down on a Tiny Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

For its first time, NASA has successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday.

For the First Time In Its History, NASA Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to send its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft down to the surface of Bennu, a small near-Earth asteroid about 500 meters across, to scoop up a sample.

Science & Energy

Here’s How to Watch as NASA Attempts to Grab a Sample From an Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spotted some strangely light colored rocks on the surface of asteroid Bennu — likely from an entirely different asteroid.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Bits of Entirely Different Asteroid on Surface of Bennu

By Victor Tangermann