The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission made contact with the asteroid Bennu for about 4.7 seconds ... Tucson time and was broadcast live by NASA from the mission’s operation center ...

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

Cameras aboard NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... Bennu, where they plan to grab a sample and return it to Earth. On Feb. 12, the craft’s long-range camera, known as PolyCam, produced a much clearer image ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...

(Main image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ... in the rocks and surrounding area." NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission blasted off in 2016, bound for near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On board the spacecraft was an instrument ...

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 ...

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