The Artemis II crew is set to return to Earth after a successful Moon mission. Their journey will end with a high-speed, intense re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down in the ...

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic material interacted during the ...

Scientists studying Bennu samples have discovered that its chemistry is far from uniform. Organic compounds and minerals cluster into three distinct types of regions, each shaped differently by past ...

"Over the past thousand years, the asteroid has passed through a particularly intense swarm that has profoundly altered the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has captured imagery of all of Asteroid Bennu over a four-hour-and-11-minute period. See it rotate in the time-lapse video. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Melania ...

Space is big. Disturbingly big. And most of the time, it goes about its business without us paying much attention. But every ...

Across the Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the scientists who study these meteors. Most movies and news alerts focus ...

The Apophis asteroid, once feared to hit Earth, is less than three years from making an unprecedented approach toward Earth.

A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday, April 13, 2029, as the asteroid Apophis passes closer than satellites over ...

The Artemis II astronauts are making their way back to Earth after the lunar flyby. The crew became the first astronauts in over 50 years to fly around the far side of the moon. They also experienced ...