NASA has granted mission extensions to eight different planetary missions, citing the continued excellent operations of the spacecraft, but more…
In 2014, the Japanese Space Agency JAXA launched the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to visit asteroid Ryugu. It arrived at the…
This week’s apparition of asteroid 1994 PC1 offers observers a chance to see a space rock moving in real time.
Scientists are fortunate enough to have detailed, close-up views of the near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. Both asteroids have a…
Asteroid Bennu is one of the two most hazardous known asteroids in our Solar System. Luckily, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral…
After more than two years in orbit around asteroid Bennu, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is ready to come home. It's bringing…
The OSIRIS-REx team decided to delay the spacecraft’s departure from asteroid Bennu for two months. The departure window opens in…
NASA's Osiris Rex mission has just reached a major milestone with a successful collection of a sample of material from…
Is there such as thing as too much asteroid? Scientists and engineers for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx decided to perform an “early…
Out in the asteroid belt, 207 million miles (334 million km) from Earth, a little spacecraft briefly touched down on…