NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

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 ...

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

The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

A week ago, the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first images. It also included a video of all the asteroids it discovered. In just 10 hours, the Simonyi Survey Telescope with the Legacy ...

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

White House takes aim at several projects failing to meet cost and schedule estimates—and several more that aren’t.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon from 590,000 kilometers awa ...

Yet Trump’s budget proposal scrubbed plans to divert the existing OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling probe to explore Apophis – a move auditors questioned.