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

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

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

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 ...

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

Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has proposed a new, relatively cheaper plan that could save NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

White House takes aim at several projects failing to meet cost and schedule estimates—and several more that aren’t.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon from 590,000 kilometers awa ...

Yet Trump’s budget proposal scrubbed plans to divert the existing OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling probe to explore Apophis – a move auditors questioned.

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent chance of hitting the Moon in 2032.