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

A series of images from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the spacecraft approach and touch down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million miles away from Earth, to collect a sample on ...

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

If all goes well, OSIRIS-REx will return a pristine sample of granules from a carbonaceous, near-Earth asteroid named Bennu in 2023.

Lauretta (at right) and two other team members examine the sample-return capsule shortly after it landed via ... NASA/Keegan Barber What sorts of skills are needed to oversee missions like OSIRIS-REx?

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

In late September 2023, the samples from OSIRIS-REx were delivered back to Earth inside a capsule. Whilst NASA tracked and retrieved the sample return capsule, ready to analyze the samples ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

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 ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears to be a stony, non-metallic type of asteroid known as an ordinary ...

Join the University of Liverpool’s space engineers for a fascinating day of discovery as they celebrate World Asteroid Day on Monday, 30 June.

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is ...