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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

A UA-led telescope atop of Mount Graham has captured the first glimpse of an asteroid-bound spacecraft since its launch in September 2016. The Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, an international ...

While the technology still needs significant work, a new analysis of meteorites points to valuable targets in the solar ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

OSIRIS-REx, the University of Arizona-led mission to asteroid Bennu, remains on schedule to launch Sept. 8 after the Thursday morning explosion of a SpaceX rocket and satellite on a nearby launch pad ...

The discovery is based on previous Curiosity findings revealed since 2018 about basic organics found on Mars though the ...

Learn more about the top theories about how life began on Earth, and how it may not have started from scratch.

Scientists have discovered new evidence suggesting that the building blocks of life can form in conditions different from those on Earth using samples retrieved from Nasa’s 2023 OSIRIS REx mission.

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn is a third-person action RPG (ARPG) in the same vein as BioWare's Mass Effect series. This means you'll be fighting real-time battles full of flying bullets and explosions, ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...