RR5 is due to skim past at a distance of 130,000 miles away from Earth, nearly twice as close as the Moon at 240,000 miles.
The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA scientists hoping to study its chemical composition.
On Sunday morning, a capsule the size of a mini-fridge dropped from the skies over western Utah, carrying a first-of-its-kind ...
NASA brought the first rock samples back from space for the first time since the Apollo Mission over the weekend. The OSIRIS-REx mission launched in 2016 towards Bennu, a more than four billion year ...
After the DART spacecraft made contact with Dimorphos last year, the space rock's orbit is declining more than expected, ...
A NASA spacecraft zooming toward Earth is on track to fling a capsule the size of an automobile tire onto a Utah bombing ...
An asteroid sample stowed inside a NASA spacecraft is about to reach Earth after traveling for nearly 2½ years across ...
Screaming into Earth's atmosphere Sunday at 7 miles per second, a precious ½-pound sample of rocks and dust from an asteroid ...
Leolabs, a space traffic management services which tracks satellites and other objects in orbit, spotted the close call on ...
It's been seven years in the making, but NASA's first sample return mission from an asteroid has finally reached home, but ...
Sep. 18, 2023 — A team recently calculated that most of the Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are at most around 3.4 billion years old and can contain relatively young deposits of water ...
