NASA Leads Bold Asteroid Encounter

Credit: OSIRIS-REx: NASA/JPL
HOUSTON—OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S.-led mission to attempt a roundtrip to an asteroid for the collection of a small sample of surface materials—promises to pay dividends for planetary defense advocates as well as scientists eager for clues to the origins of life on Earth, according to those who have...

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