This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

A University of Tokyo team achieved the feat with an AI-based rock identification tool that was fed information on rocks on ...

Pat Parris explores 50 years of the Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium, and tells us what makes it Absolutely Arizona.

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some ...

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our ...

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

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Some people in town today for the Yakima River Canyon Marathon may have been looking for a little running inspiration.

In May 2021, OSIRIS-REx began its journey back to Earth carrying dust from Bennu - a rubble-pile asteroid older than Earth itself. When the capsule was opened in 2023, scientists were stunned by ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...