NASA has spent decades obsessed with asteroids and for good reason. These ancient space rocks aren’t just debris; they’re ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx risked everything to touch a cosmic relic, Bennu offered no guarantees only danger and possibility, years ...

Newly created by Hardin Planetarium, we explore how our ancestors kept track of the change of time. Learn the basics of sundials, including how to build one. Discover why ancient peoples divided the ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

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