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

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Colorado State University.

The near miss by the large Apophis asteroid in April 2029 offers NASA a golden—and exceedingly rare—opportunity to observe ...

NASA's Worm logo is displayed in front of the agency's headquarters in Washington.Credit: NASA Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the ...

Join the University of Liverpool’s space engineers for a fascinating day of discovery as they celebrate World Asteroid Day on Monday, 30 June.

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and cutting thousands of jobs.

Two NASA employees are being honored as part of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, also known as the Sammies, ...

The asteroid, also known as Kamoʻoalewa, is a strange little object just 40 metres wide. It orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it a “quasi-moon”, an asteroid that stays close to our planet but ...

The sample-return capsule from University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission rests in the Utah desert near its main parachute, shortly after touching down on Sept. 24.

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

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...