The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

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 ...

And now, ESA plans to add a second cubesat to the mission, to attempt a landing on Apophis ... close Earth passage by the asteroid Apophis in April 2029," an Apophis T-4 workshop summary communique ...

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 ...

The sample return capsule (SRC) from the OSIRIS-REx mission landed at 8:52 a.m. MT (10:52 a.m. ET) on Sunday in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near ...

Editor's Note, October 23: Leaders of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission have confirmed that the spacecraft collected a significant amount of material from the asteroid Bennu during its October 20 encounter.

This, she and others say, is another reason why asteroid-sample-return missions are indispensable. And more surprises from OSIRIS-REx’s haul may be in store.

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the mission returned its samples to Earth in 2023.

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth. As part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission ...