NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

The Aquarids – sometimes spelled as "Aquariids" – first became active April 19 and are due to peak between May 5 and May 6.

(THE CONVERSATION) Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids ... together to study such an “artificial meteor” – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample ...