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

24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule ... “There was no negative impact to OSIRIS-REx’s (asteroid) sample as a result of the unexpected drogue deployment,” the space agency said in ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...

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

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

In 2020, the first US asteroid retrieval mission, Osiris-REx, brought back samples from ... was China’s first mission to Mars, successfully landing on a vast plain known as Utopia Planitia ...