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

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

Sandra Freund, OSIRIS-REx mission operations manager at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado, said scientists and engineers will begin examining on Thursday images taken inside the ...

A NASA mission led by the University of Arizona is at risk of cancellation, putting groundbreaking asteroid research and ...

Now the material is safe and sound. A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from ...

Nearly two years after launch, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission caught its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from 1.4 million miles away. The asteroid appeared as a ...

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds, roughly half as long as it took Neil Armstrong to announce his “one small step for ...

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is ...

June 17 (UPI) -- Two NASA employees are being cited for their civic work in the nation's space industry. The Samuel J. Heyman ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen-3 has a chance to become the first mission to return pristine samples from ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...