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GLASSBORO - Dr. Harold Connolly will wait seven years for his asteroid samples to return from space on a $1 billion mission. In the meantime, the bow-tied geologist and admitted geek, is building a ...

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

A NASA probe orbiting an asteroid over 100 million miles from Earth will make a perilous attempt on Tuesday to snatch a sample from the celestial body’s rocky surface to bring home the space agency’s ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...