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

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

NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...

The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

The departures are playing out as NASA and other government agencies contend with significant cuts to funding and personnel.

OSIRIS-REx was one of NASA’s most impressive successes in years. In 2020, it successfully touched down on a near-Earth asteroid called 101955 Bennu, collected a sample, and eventually returned ...

Announcing the winner of the Museum’s 2025 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement: OSIRIS-REx NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission achieved the first asteroid sample return by the United States, as well ...

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

It remains an open question as to whether NASA and the U.S. space program will survive the Republican president’s second term ...

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

While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 ...