The list of amazing features to talk about here is seriously extensive, and one quick look at this thing makes it perfectly ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Asteroids are usually grouped into three main types based on what they are made of: C-type, S-type and M-type.

The sample was secured after a tense few days following OSIRIS-REx’s October 20 touchdown on Bennu, which made the spacecraft only the third—and NASA’s first—to collect a sample from an ...

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...

The University of Arizona's Kuiper Laboratory is the stage for these discoveries, where researchers utilize cutting-edge instruments to analyze these particles down to the atomic scale. One of the ...

Ultimately, you chose a site called Nightingale in a northern crater of Bennu—why? I was hoping that the team would come to a uniform consensus—unanimous—and that it would be overwhelmingly obvious ...

RAW color commentator Pat McAfee is currently on hiatus from calling the show and has been missing for the past three weeks.

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

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

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...