NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

A defunct Soviet spacecraft from 1972, originally built to land on Venus, is now hurtling back to Earth after over 50 years ...

If the Moon were to collide with Earth, the outcome would be catastrophic—triggering mega-earthquakes, tsunamis, atmospheric ...

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket suffered a technical issue on Tuesday as it ascended into space on its sixth flight, causing ...

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Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

The Japanese asteroid ... has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep space. Hayabusa2 successfully delivered pieces of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December ...

Mission team members are investigating how the anomaly may affect plans to study another asteroid ... transitioned into safe mode. Communications between Earth and the spacecraft were stable ...

In February, news that the probability of another asteroid, 2024 YR4, hitting Earth in 2032 at one point ... it intentionally had a space probe crash into an asteroid to change the asteroid's ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in ... gradually decays into lead at a known rate. In the case of Yarrabubba, they found that the ...