NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

A NASA spacecraft touched down on the rugged surface of the Bennu asteroid on Tuesday, grabbing a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our solar system to bring home.

Tianwen 2 will collect samples and deliver them back to Earth in late 2027, using a reentry capsule. Then the spacecraft will ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...

Is Earth's new 'second moon' dangerous? Get the truth about Asteroid 2025 PN7, the harmless quasi-moon that baffles NASA ...

The Trump administration has proposed a number of major cost-saving measures in 2025, and NASA's budget for the 2026 financial year was no different. A Mars sample return mission may be lost, and the ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory braces for another round of layoffs as budget cuts loom. Approximately 550 employees of NASA ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

The metal-coated asteroid Psyche may have had eruptions of molten iron and nickel on its surface. This situation was more ...

NASA has secured the necessary funding for the OSIRIS-APEX mission, which would see the repurposed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft used to visit another asteroid, Apophis, in 2029. The mission—one of 19 science ...

Two ESA spacecraft, Hera and Europa Clipper, are poised to fly through the long tail of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a new ...

New research reveals the Moon's colossal South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by an asteroid striking from the north, not the ...