In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, NASA has confirmed that samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain all five ...

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

The probe flew 3,438 kilometres above Earth during its swing. It moved closer than several high-orbit satellites circling the ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu launches in six days. Bennu is the Goldilocks of asteroids — not too small, not too far away and made of just the right stuff. Of the more than 500,000 ...

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a four per cent chance of hitting the moon on 22 December 2032. However, fresh observations could mean the odds of a collision rise to as high as 30 per cent.

On November 19, 2025, NASA did a live webcast to share the hitherto unreleased cache of 3I/ATLAS images taken by several of ...

Of all the asteroids in all the orbits throughout the solar system, how did the University of Arizona choose Bennu to visit and sample? It was part process of elimination and part luck, said Carl ...

Funding uncertainties are pushing U.S. space scientists out of the field and putting existing and future space missions on the chopping block.

DeGrasse Tyson, the world-renowned astrophysicist, spoke in front of 4,000 people at a summit in Erie in Oct. 29.

While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...