NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The Sept. 24 landing of the OSIRIS-REx space capsule was a historic success, but it wasn’t perfect. NASA has confirmed that the capsule’s parachute system did not work properly during its ...

China has released the first picture sent by its Tianwen-2 mission spacecraft which launched on May 28. While on its way to ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

Nearly two years after launch, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission caught its first glimpse of the asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from 1.4 million miles away. The asteroid appeared as a ...

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

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 ...

Similar to how researchers gained valuable data just from the Hayabusa2 collection process, atmospheric scientists didn't even need to open the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule to learn something new.

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