The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions ...

The asteroid material at the sampling site was less dense than researchers predicted—about one-sixth the density of a typical rock on Earth—and the touch-and-go landing launched a spray of ...

Scientists shared the first comprehensive science results from NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid-sampling mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, revealing the out-of-this-world makeup of ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

NASA's first effort to retrieve samples from an asteroid will send a capsule that contains extraterrestrial pebbles and dust plunging towards a Utah desert on Sunday.

NASA has set a schedule for coverage of its first asteroid sampling mission's return to earth. The Origins, Spectral interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer ...

A near-Earth asteroid named Bennu has a loosely packed surface similar to a pit of plastic balls, according to NASA scientists. A spacecraft collected a sample from the asteroid in October 2020 ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped asteroids, planets and moons grow in our solar system.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx recently dropped off a sample from asteroid Bennu, and now it will continue on to a new target: asteroid Apophis.

NASA’s asteroid-sampling spacecraft OSIRIS-REx just snapped its closest picture yet of Bennu, the deep-space rock it’s been hovering around since the end of last year.

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...