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NASA is celebrating the successful end of a 7-year, $1 billion mission to collect and return a sample from the asteroid Bennu. CBS News' Mark Strassmann has more on the mission. And Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, joined CBS News to discuss the significance of the samples.
NASA is celebrating the successful end of a seven-year, $1 billion mission to collect and return a sample from an asteroid named Bennu. Mark Strassmann reports scientists hope the sample will provide clues about the origin of the solar system.
In a dramatic 13-minute plunge back to Earth, the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule safely landed in Utah after seven years in space.
A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu is expected to slam into Earth's atmosphere at a blistering 27,650 mph on Sunday and then parachute down to the ground. NASA senior scientist Amy Simon joined CBS News to discuss the purpose and logistics of the mission.
A capsule carrying rock and dust samples collected from the asteroid Bennu is scheduled to land in the Utah desert Sunday morning. The samples are being deposited by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which after releasing the capsule will depart for a trip to the asteroid Apophis, which it is expected to reach in 2029.
The OSIRIS-REx sample return in Utah will bring a seven-year, four-billion-mile journey to a close, providing insights into the birth of the solar system.
Two cameras working together helped NASA reveal details in "greater detail than previously possible."
It's National Hispanic Heritage Month and we are sharing a powerful story about perseverance from NASA astronaut José Hernandez. Hernandez was a migrant worker as a child, and dreamed of one day going to space. His life story is portrayed in the movie, "A Million Miles Away," streaming on Prime Video. For our series "Note to Self," Hernandez shares a letter with his younger self about his journey to the stars and beyond.
Frank Rubio and two cosmonaut crewmates return to Earth next Wednesday to wrap up a U.S. record 371-day stay in orbit.
NASA called the Parker Solar Probe's flight "not only an impressive feat of engineering, but a huge boon for the scientific community."
The crew is replacing another Soyuz crew, including NASA's Frank Rubio, who's wrapping up a record 371-day stay in space.
NASA released a new report on UFOs — also known as unidentified anomalous phenomena — on Thursday. The report examines how the space agency can better contribute to the scientific understanding of the objects. CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood joins "Prime Time" to separate fact from science fiction.
The image shows "luminous regions" around a newborn star in a strikingly high resolution.
Loral O'Hara will spend six months aboard the space station; two Russian crewmates plan to stay a full year.
A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.
NASA officials stressed that the group found no evidence that UAPs are "extraterrestrial" in nature, but said some of the objects cannot be explained.
Astronaut Frank Rubio, forced to spend an extra six months aboard the International Space Station because of trouble with his Russian ride home, set a new U.S. single-flight endurance record Monday, moving past Mark Vande Hei's 355 days off-planet. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood has more on the record.
The exoplanet, called K2-18 b, could be a Hycean planet – meaning it has a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and an ocean.
Frank Rubio moved past NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei's 355-day record on the way to spending more than a full year in space.
The National Reconnaissance Office says the "Silent Barker" satellites will keep tabs on potentially threatening adversary spacecraft.
Picking up the pace of commercial operations, Virgin Galactic is now launching piloted suborbital spaceflights every month.
Japan is seeking to become only the fifth nation to successfully land a probe on the moon. Only the U.S., Russia, China and India have done it.
None of the asteroids pose any threat to Earth, according to NASA's Asteroid Watch dashboard.
The Crew Dragon put on a spectacular show as it descended across Florida in a blaze of super-heated plasma.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut undocked from the International Space Station Sunday and was expected to splashdown off the coast of Florida Monday.
The government shutdown entered its 12th day on Sunday as Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse over a spending plan, and the Trump administration began laying off thousands of federal workers.
Democratic leaders in Congress have pushed for serious negotiations with Republican leaders and the White House to end the stalemate.
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has brought cautious calm to the region as aid begins to flow into the Gaza Strip.
Diane Keaton had a decades-long career with performances in 1977's "Annie Hall," the "The Godfather" films, and many more.
The former justice who was the deciding vote on some of the Supreme Court's most consequential decisions talks about the Court today, and about his memoir, "Life, Law & Liberty."
The Defense Department announced earlier this week that about 200 National Guard soldiers from Texas and another 300 from Illinois were federalized and sent to the Chicago area.
The shooting at Willie's Bar and Grill on St. Helena Island left at least 20 injured, including four in critical condition, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office said.
The latest white-knuckle thriller by director Kathryn Bigelow imagines the responses within the government and the military when a single ICBM is launched toward the United States.
Alison Davis says she woke up to find her husband, Kevin Davis, face down in a pool of blood inside their New Haven, Indiana, home. She says he fell down the stairs. But after an autopsy report, police came to a different conclusion.