An asteroid the size of a house is due to soar past Earth today, coming twice as close to our planet as the moon's orbit. This asteroid, named 2023 RR5, is estimated to be around 20 feet in ...

OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.

Today marks the final step of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which launched in September 2016, as a small capsule containing a sample of the asteroid Bennu descends through the Earth’s atmosphere ...

In Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (streaming now on Peacock), a group of students and parents arrive at the titular fictional ...

It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

In a historic special delivery spanning seven years and 4 billion miles, an estimated half-pound of rocks from a distant asteroid successfully parachuted into a Utah desert site Sunday morning and ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --NASA has scheduled coverage of its first asteroid sampling mission's return to Earth. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security -- Regolith ...

After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid that will ...

Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...

A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...