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

I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and challenged us. The most surprising thing that directly impacted the mission is the rugged nature of Bennu’s surface.

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Mexico President ...

An external view of the OSIRIS-REx sample-collector hardware shows material from the carbon-rich asteroid scattered across the right side. NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold ...

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

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them, the cancellation of a mission titled OSIRIS-APEX, and it’s frankly ...

The asteroid Bennu had an unexpectedly rugged surface, which created difficulties for landing. The spacecraft also collected too much rock, which briefly prevented the lid on its sample collection ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main asteroid belt. The second in China's interplanetary exploration program ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.

Nicknamed Bennu, the one we’ll be looking at today is no different, revolving around a 1978-model Shovelhead from Harley-Davidson.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view ...