Sky watchers may have reason to look up this week. NASA has confirmed that two asteroids will fly past Earth on August 3. The ...

NASA is once again grappling with a leadership change as Makenzie Lystrup, the director of the Goddard Space Flight Center, ...

the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the OSIRIS-REx mission that collected samples from an asteroid. Lystrup’s resignation ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Senate Approves Banning Unemployment Benefits For People With More ...

OSIRIS-REx was one of NASA’s most impressive successes in years. In 2020, it successfully touched down on a near-Earth asteroid called 101955 Bennu, collected a sample, and eventually returned ...

Now, scientists are proposing a new mission to reach this distant world using a revolutionary propulsion technology.

A NASA mission led by the University of Arizona is at risk of cancellation, putting groundbreaking asteroid research and millions in local funding in jeopardy.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was planned decades ago. In 2016, a spacecraft launched. In 2018, it arrived at Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Sears Tower is tall.

Kratos and GE Aerospace signed an agreement to develop affordable engines for unmanned aerial systems. GEK800 and GEK1500 engines will support scalable propulsion for diverse defense applications ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the ...

China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.