Apophis, a 1,100-foot asteroid, is set to pass by Earth in April 2029. At one point, it was believed to have nearly a 3 ...

It's the final countdown. NASA's $1 billion OSIRIS-REx sample return mission is less than 48 hours away from its dramatic landing in the Utah desert. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (which stands for ...

A recent study has disclosed initial findings from the samples collected during a billion-dollar NASA mission to Bennu, ...

But the dust and rubble captured by the Osiris-Rex mission from the Bennu asteroid, a top-shaped space rock that’s about one-third of a mile wide, isn’t just any random cosmic crud.

Scientists were taken by surprise on Wednesday when an asteroid, previously undetected, entered Earth's atmosphere. The ...

NASA is considering pulling a pair of shelved spacecraft out of storage to spy on notorious asteroid Apophis ahead of its ...

On September 24, 2023, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the Utah desert, delivering an asteroid sample that NASA has spent nearly 20 years trying to retrieve. Two weeks after touchdown ...

The Rev. Cyril P. Opeil, right, a Greenfield Twp. native and Lakeland High School graduate, attended the second conference of ...

At 6:12 p.m. EDT on October 20, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission completed a daring journey to collect a sample from an asteroid 200 million miles away and return it to Earth. OSIRIS-REx launched on ...

Nasa's Osiris-Rex capsule will come screaming into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday at more than 15 times the speed of a rifle bullet. It will make a fireball in the sky as it does so, but a heat ...

Researchers at Curtin University are uncovering the secrets of Asteroid Bennu’s ancient fragments, which have journeyed ...

Researchers from Curtin University, as part of an international team, are studying samples from the 4.5-billion-year-old ...