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

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

I call Bennu the “trickster asteroid” because it constantly surprised us and challenged us. The most surprising thing that directly impacted the mission is the rugged nature of Bennu’s surface.

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 proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them, the cancellation of a mission titled OSIRIS-APEX, and it’s frankly ...

Even with many lawmakers in favor of maintaining NASA's budget, a flat budget is still a funding cut when accounting for ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Trump supporter with green card who was in US since age 3 denied ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main asteroid belt. The second in China's interplanetary exploration program ...

Nicknamed Bennu, the one we’ll be looking at today is no different, revolving around a 1978-model Shovelhead from Harley-Davidson.

This includes the data on the asteroid boulders themselves. This new study suggests the importance of considering all of these variables when planning future asteroid deflection missions.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view ...