Recently two new observatories — NASA's SPHEREx and the Vera C Rubin Observatory — released their first images.

In the quest to understand the fundamental forces of nature, scientists have turned their attention to a long-debated theory: the existence of a fifth force. A recent study,published in Nature ...

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 ...

According to a study published recently in Science Advances, there is a 0.037% chance that a medium-size asteroid could ...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from a range of 15 miles. During the past year, there’s been an unusual set of samples at the ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images. The top-left pane shows a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with an ...

A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, shown in microscope images. The top-left pane shows a dark Bennu particle, about a millimeter long, with an ...

This image shows four views of asteroid Bennu along with a corresponding global mosaic. The images were taken on Dec. 2, 2018, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s PolyCam camera.

But this quality would also mean having to rethink how to deflect a dangerous asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The images immediately before and after OSIRIS REx’s contact with Bennu.

On Wednesday, OSIRIS-REx had one last close encounter with Bennu. The craft's observations could reveal the origins of life — and protect life's future.

NASA has shared a high-resolution image of the asteroid Bennu sample inside the Touch-and-Go-Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), which remained closed because of stuck fasteners until last week ...

You can zoom in on photos posted to the NASA website to see more detail. OSIRIS-REx's van-sized craft visited Bennu, scraped and collected material from the asteroid’s surface and sealed it into ...