Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

BEIJING: China embarked today on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...

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 ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully ... After traversing billions of miles to reach Bennu and return, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft released its sample capsule toward Earth's atmosphere at ...

The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex ... Image caption, A C17 transporter will take the samples to a curation facility in Texas Nasa is ...

Image: An image of asteroid Bennu composed of 12 images from the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Pic: NASA Asteroid Bennu is a 4.5-billion-year-old remnant of the early solar system and is classified as a ...

Monday update: This story has been updated with comments from OSIRIS-REx officials about the drogue parachute. A small capsule carrying pristine specimens from an asteroid parachuted to a landing ...

A seven-year mission to study what has been described as the most dangerous rock in the Solar System is about to reach its dramatic conclusion. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft ... asteroid Bennu. These ...