Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

NASA has spent decades obsessed with asteroids and for good reason. These ancient space rocks aren’t just debris; they’re ...

The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.

Even with many lawmakers in favor of maintaining NASA's budget, a flat budget is still a funding cut when accounting for ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

HOUSTON—Osiris-Rex, the first U.S. asteroid sample return mission, embarked late Sept. 8 on a seven-year, round trip encounter with the Near Earth Object Bennu. The $1 billion robotic mission is ...

NASA is once again grappling with a leadership change as Makenzie Lystrup, the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center, ...

An airplane-sized asteroid named 2025 OZ will make its closest approach to Earth on July 24, passing at a distance of 3.34 ...

This “super-resolution” view of the asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29 from about 205 miles away.

The mission team, including NASA, Lockheed Martin, the University of Arizona, and KinetX Aerospace, has been recognized for the successful navigation, collection, and return of asteroid samples ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission is currently orbiting the 500-m (1,640-ft.) wide Bennu at just 680 m altitude, breaking a record the spacecraft previously set when it maneuvered ...

KinetX’s navigation work continues as part of the OSIRIS-APophis Explorer (OSIRIS-APEX) mission, guiding the spacecraft to its next target: the 300-meter asteroid Apophis. The mission includes ...