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

PHOENIX - Scientists at the University of Arizona are on pins and needles, ready to make monumental discoveries in the coming weeks. The scientists are part of a decade-long NASA mission to study ...

A capsule containing 2 ounces of rocky material from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid Bennu has landed safely in the Utah desert after a seven-year mission in space. When you purchase through ...

UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE—Yes, it came from outer space. An extraterrestrial express delivery package from afar has landed safe and sound on Earth, bringing a multimillion-mile journey billions of ...

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid ...

OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:55 a.m. EDT (1455 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The mission collected samples from an asteroid 200 million miles away. NASA revealed on Wednesday that "the building blocks of life on Earth" may have been found in an asteroid sample collected from ...

Science has made great progress in telling the story of how Earth was formed more than four and a half billion years ago. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and plate tectonics shape the landscape. But ...

NASA's OSIRIS-Apex spacecraft captured the Earth during a flyby. The spacecraft will be studying the asteroid Apophis after ...

The manoeuvre adjusted the spacecraft's path and speed around the Sun, setting up a complex series of future orbits that will ...