NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 spacecraft to collect samples from the asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and to return them by ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

so the OSIRIS-REx team is closely studying the asteroid to learn to navigate in these alien conditions. OSIRIS-REx will scoop a sample of the asteroid in July 2020. It will return to Earth and ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...