NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Agency looking at ways to use planet-threatening rocks’ tiny gravitational fields to slightly alter their trajectories ...

Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

Nasa's Psyche mission is currently on its way there and is ... The spacecraft, renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is now on its way to ...

For an hour, HERA flew as close as 5,600 kilometers from the Martian surface, at a speed of 33,480 kilometers an hour. It ...

While the team works on this, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has been renamed OSIRIS-APEX, and will attempt to get up close to asteroid 99942 Apophis following a close encounter by the asteroid with Earth in 2029.

SOME astronomical events we see often, like shooting stars, but these are only a fraction of the dazzling celestial wonders occurring over the vast expanse of time. However, there are still four ...

So, while we’re safe, Apophis is in for one bumpy ride ... Trump announces release of documents on Kennedy's assassination NASA's stuck astronauts are finally on their way back to Earth after ...

NASA and the European Space Agency also are interested in getting a better look at Apophis before and during its close approach to Earth in 2029. For context, 2024 YR4 now rates at a 0 on the ...

NASA and the European Space Agency also are interested in getting a better look at Apophis before and during its close approach to Earth in 2029. For context, 2024 YR4 now rates at a 0 on the Torino ...