This asteroid is delivering everything I dreamed of it. The samples delivered by the Osiris-rex spacecraft from near Earth asteroid Benu contained salts that formed in *** liquid environment like ...

When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more than a year ago, NASA split up a 120-gram sample, collected in October 2020 from the asteroid Bennu, among researchers around the globe.

Rivkin led the investigation for Nasa's 2022 DART mission, which successfully nudged an asteroid off its course using a spacecraft — a strategy known as a "kinetic impactor." The target asteroid ...