CNN — A NASA spacecraft will play a game of tag next week with a near-Earth asteroid. The mission will attempt the agency's first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to Earth. The ...

This afternoon, NASA held an online conference to talk about TAG, an upcoming event under the OSIRIS-REx mission. During this event, which is scheduled to take place in a couple of weeks, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe successfully tags giant 'rubble pile' asteroid Bennu NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has now fulfilled its ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Engineers struggled to open the sample canister for ...

Osiris-Rex as a concept has been in existence since at least 2004, when a team of astronomers first proposed the idea to NASA. After more than a decade of development, the spacecraft launched from ...

(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft will play a game of tag next week with a near-Earth asteroid. The mission will attempt the agency’s first sample collection from an asteroid that will be returned to Earth.