CNN

This asteroid sample could reveal our solar system’s origin story

Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from ...
SpaceNews

Malin Space Science Systems Delivers Camera System for OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission

Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS), has delivered the camera system it produced for NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission to return a sample of the asteroid Bennu. This system, collectively called the ...
The Verge

NASA collected a sample from an asteroid for the first time — here’s why it matters

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 ...
The Conversation

Hayabusa 2: returning asteroid sample could help uncover the origins of life and the solar system

John Bridges receives funding from STFC. What is your idea of an asteroid? Many people think of them as potato-shaped, inert and perhaps rather dull, pock-marked objects – far away in deep space. But ...