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

Gutting NASA is a preventable disaster,” writes Christopher Cokinos in an op-ed. “Congressional voices on both sides of the ...

24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule ... “There was no negative impact to OSIRIS-REx’s (asteroid) sample as a result of the unexpected drogue deployment,” the space agency said in ...

China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...

In 2020, the first US asteroid retrieval mission, OSIRIS-REx, brought back samples from ... was China’s first mission to Mars, successfully landing on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia ...

China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing objects in our solar system, the likes of which have never been visited by a spacecraft before. The Tianwen-2 mission launched aboard a ...

Carrying the Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, China's Long March-3B carrier rocket takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch ...