It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...

OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample — protected by a heat shield invented in Silicon Valley — landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert Sunday morning, where it was greeted by a ...

Japan is the only other country to have delivered an asteroid sample to Earth. But its two missions collected significantly ...

The full harvest moon will shine in the early morning hours of Sept. 29, also marking the fourth and final supermoon of 2023.

As NASA celebrated the successful landing of a capsule filled with gravel and soil from asteroid Bennu, the spacecraft that ...

Catch a big, bright Harvest Moon before you enjoy some solar system action in the sky this week.

Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample touched down on Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...

Feb. 8, 2023 — Dust launched from the moon's surface or from a space station positioned between Earth ... in orbit over months or years. A new simulation ... Lunar Glass Shows Moon Asteroid ...

This collage shows six planetary radar observations of 2011 AG5 a day after the asteroid made its close approach to Earth on ...

After a seven-year, 3.86-billion-mile odyssey, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully delivered to Earth samples from ...