"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Vestri’s landing legs would be equipped with magnets ... of rocks held together loosely by gravity, such as the asteroid Bennu that was visited by NASA’s ORISIS-REx spacecraft.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft landed upright on the Moon–a first for a private company–and released amazing HD video ...

If we did learn that it would hit on December 22, 2032, astronomers say they could pinpoint the landing area with ... same craft that landed on the asteroid Bennu and returned samples to Earth ...

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth ...

Here’s a look at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the United States government agency that conducts research into space. There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy ...

and found molecules containing the ingredients for life in samples from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and ...

“During his tenure as associate administrator since January 2024, NASA added nearly two dozen new signatories of the Artemis Accords, enabled the first Moon landing through the agency’s CLPS ...

Now scientists reveal they used kilometers of fiber optics to analyze shockwaves from a NASA spacecraft returning to Earth, ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny ...

After four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on the asteroid Bennu to collect samples of the ancient rock. Six months later, part of the spacecraft began its journey ...