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

REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber Mary Magnuson, Collecting asteroid samples China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this ...

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

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

The astronomer wrote it under a pseudonym in 1605 to avoid persecution for ‘heretical’ theories.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may strike the moon in 2032, posing risks to satellites from lunar ejecta and possibly causing a brief meteor shower.

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.