NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge ... 4 space tourists splash down after traveling an orbit never attempted before 'Highly narcissistic' people ...

Water-rich meteorites contain key ingredients for life, yet they barely appear in meteorite collections. Recent research ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Brand new research has produced a better estimate of its size and orbit ... The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu.

While the spring semester is winding down, the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium is amping up its offerings ...

To this day, remnants of the historic Apollo lunar missions exist on the moon; the OSIRIS-REx probe recently placed its robotic fingerprint on a clumpy asteroid called Bennu; multiple rovers have ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample ... likely gets broken down through heat stress when its orbit takes it close to the Sun. As carbonaceous ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center taking more Starlink satellites into orbit. Read full ... touches the surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.