Catch a big, bright Harvest Moon before you enjoy some solar system action in the sky this week.

OSIRIS-REx was launched on September 8, 2016, five years after the project was selected by NASA to be the agency’s third ...

B NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

As NASA celebrated the successful landing of a capsule filled with gravel and soil from asteroid Bennu, the spacecraft that ...

The country’s first pristine asteroid sample landed in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert, where it was greeted by a team of NASA ...

16 Psyche is located in the large asteroid belt between Mars and ... astronauts returned with moon rocks in the 1960s and 70s. It will be brought back to Earth and land at the Utah Test and Training ...

A large asteroid ... between the Earth and the Moon. It was closest to the planet at around 4:28 p.m. EST, passing by Greenland and Canada. This was a very close call, as most asteroids that pass ...

High-Energy electrons from planet Earth might ... were collected by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument, an imaging spectrometer, onboard India's Chandrayaan 1 mission between 2008 and 2009.

It has fluctuated between ... orbit and low-Earth orbit," Hoffman said. "Space out as far as geostationary orbit is part of our everyday economy. Someday I think the moon will be, and that's ...

The summer temperatures this year averaged 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the summers between 1951 and ... ago NASA to live stream asteroid sample's return to Earth this weekend Sept.

Dimosphos, as captured by DART's ... an asteroid roughly 6.8 million miles away from Earth. The operation was successful but led to something baffling: Instead of maintaining a steady orbit ...