A NASA scientist has warned that "the risk of an asteroid impact is real" and the "consequences would be huge" as he urges ...

That was Dante Lauretta's take after reviewing the first pictures to come down from Nasa's Osiris-Rex probe following its bid to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu on Tuesday. Dust and grit flew in ...

NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space ... the real science is just beginning," said the mission’s lead scientist, Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona.

Related: NASA's 1st asteroid sample is rich in carbon and ... particle is 3.5 centimeters," said University of Arizona's Dante Lauretta, the principal investigator for OSIRIS-REx.

Bennu - the asteroid could hold clues as to how the ... the required collected mass is seen escaping," head of mission Dante Lauretta said. The craft is believed to have collected some 400g ...

“Everything went just exactly perfect,” Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal ... “We have overcome the amazing challenges that this asteroid has thrown at us, and the spacecraft appears ...

The phosphate's purity and grain size are unprecedented in any meteorite sample, distinguishing it from similar findings in other asteroid samples. Dante Lauretta, principal investigator for ...

Earlier this month, NASA revealed the final four would-be landing spots for its OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe ... while keeping the spacecraft safe,” Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal ...