A recent paper published in Nature and Nature Astronomy finding life's building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Japan's space agency is hoping to make the samples collected by its Hayabusa2 space probe from an asteroid recognized as ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission blasted off in 2016, bound for near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On board the spacecraft was an instrument known as OLA — the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter, a piece of Canadian ...

The spacecraft's NavCam 1 - one of three cameras that comprised its 'Touch-and-Go' camera system - snapped the photo 804,000 ...

A Sandia National Laboratories scientist has demonstrated how infrasound technology can improve planetary defense against threats from space.

Space junk and meteoroids are falling to Earth every year, posing a growing risk as they re-enter the atmosphere at high ...

About 66 million years ago, the Tyrannosaurus rex roamed around Earth terrifying nature around it. Now, one of the largest predators ever to live on land can be your next purse. Researchers and ...