REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

In his inauguration speech in January, United States President Donald Trump declared the US would "plant the stars and stripes on the planet ...

With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When the spacecraft completed its long journey home ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

It's an eggshell white, conical probe named SPHEREx, which (get ready for a mouthful ... "Shout out to our team at OSIRIS-REx in the Planetary Division," Domagal-Goldman said. "They pick up that story ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest essential building blocks of life were distributed throughout the solar ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather clues to the birth of the solar system. Some 4.5 billion years ago, our solar neighborhood started as a cloud of dust ...