An asteroid the size of a house is due to soar past Earth today, coming twice as close to our planet as the moon's orbit.This asteroid, named 2023 RR5, is estimated to be around 20 feet in diameter, ...
On a brisk day in February, 2004, Dante Lauretta, an assistant professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, got a call from Michael Drake, the head of the school’s Lunar and Planetary ...
After successfully delivering NASA’s first asteroid sample collected in space, the OSIRIS-REx mission, now renamed OSIRIS-APEX, is embarking on a new journey — this time to study an asteroid ...
OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...
Tucked inside a protective heat shield, the asteroid sample should touch down Sunday at the military-controlled Utah Test and ...
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 ...
A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...
This orbital diagram from CNEOS’s close approach viewer shows 2023 BU’s trajectory – in red – during its close approach with ...
The full harvest moon will shine in the early morning hours of Sept. 29, also marking the fourth and final supermoon of 2023.
A large asteroid as wide as the wingspan of a Boeing 747 passed by the Earth recently – and scientists didn't even see it coming. Dubbed 2021 SG, according to the NASA-backed International ...
It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...
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 ...
