NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was planned decades ago. In 2016, a spacecraft launched. In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall.

Asteroids, often overlooked, hold vital clues about our solar system's formation and potential future. Missions like OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa have deepened our understanding, revealing surprising ...

T. rex is the deadliest land predator ever to live, and there has long been a fascination with the dinosaur that has been extinct for about 66 million years. Khankhuuluu, a newly discovered ...

Since his July 2023 arrest, accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann has been under a microscope. Still, the 61-year-old architect from Long Island remains a puzzle. Peacock’s eye-opening ...

Bennu passes near Earth every six years and has had three close encounters with Earth in 1999, 2005, and 2011, experts said in the ScienceDirect study. There is a 1 in 2,700, or 0.037% chance that ...

In addition to Anchorage, Perth-based HMC Group, the parent of Nexus Airlines, had considered submitting a bid. However, it is unclear if it tabled a competing offer. Nexus flies a limited number ...

Alleged Gilgo beach serial killer Rex Heuermann was “very methodical” and had a great deal of “self control,” according to his closest pal. Heuermann, 61, is said to have waited until his ...

Recently, during the first Ars Live event of this year, two noted space journalists joined Ars space editor Eric Berger for a discussion of NASA's future in the age of the second Trump ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Nearly 1,000 employees have accepted resignation offers, according to NASA late Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. space agency.

In 2015, a study by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences discovered a particle 30 times heavier than an electron that could form the basis of a fifth force, and the U.S.-based Fermilab stated boldly ...