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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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.

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

HOUSTON—Two solar-powered NASA planetary mission spacecraft have achieved recent deep-space milestones: Juno while orbiting Jupiter and Osiris-Rex while outbound on its seven-year sample return ...

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

The mission is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 4:05 p.m. Tucson time Thursday, Sept. 8. Elizabeth Eaton is a NASA Space Grant undergraduate research scholar.

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 ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 8, 2016 ” The Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer spacecraft will launch on Sept ...

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