Asteroid Bennu—the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona—is a mixture of ...

NASA says its Perseverance rover on Mars has transmitted new imagery that forms one of the sharpest panoramas of the Martian ...

The looming cancellation of RPS has placed the highest-priority planetary science mission of the coming decade at risk. In ...

The Apollo 17 mission, NASA’s final crewed expedition to the Moon in December 1972, returned with valuable lunar samples, ...

Learn how rock and dust samples are shedding light on the origins of Asteroid Bennu and the history of the early Solar System ...

The samples were sealed until technology improved enough to study them. Now, they may have helped solve a lunar mystery.

One of the papers is the first major study of the chemistry of Bennu, published today in Nature Astronomy, revealing that the sample is chemically primitive and contains a mixture of materials with ...

At first glance, Ceres looks like one of the least likely places to harbor life. The dwarf planet, sitting quietly in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is now a cold, nearly airless, grey ...

Scientists working with return samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu have uncovered a cosmic time ...

With Sriharikota as the launchpad of civilian space dreams and Balasore as the hub of strategic missile testing, these sites ...