A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet and the solar system seem like a lot to fit in 4 ...

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DUGWAY, UTAH - SEPTEMBER 24: In this handout provided by NASA, from left to right, NASA Astromaterials Curator Francis McCubbin, NASA Sample Return Capsule Science Lead Scott Sandford, and University ...

Ancient asteroid samples contain crucial clues about the solar system, a new study has revealed. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, presents findings from Japanese Hayabusa2, a mission ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission, launched in 2016, has collected as much as several hundred grams of asteroid material, which could help scientists understand the earliest stages of the Solar System. The ...

Trevor Ireland receives funding from The Australian Research Council and is a member of the Hayabusa Joint Science Team. Just over 12 months ago, we were sitting at Woomera, in the Australian outback, ...