A NASA space capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever scooped up from the surface of an asteroid streaked through ...

REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, gathered 8.8 ounces of material from the surface of ...

Sep. 20, 2023 — The first use of a novel method of analyzing Mars' gravitational force supports the idea that the planet once had an extensive northern ocean. In doing so, the method defines the ...

OSIRIS-REx is expected to bring asteroid material of mass weighing about 250 grams to the Earth. The sample return capsule is ...

A recent study submitted to Acta Astronautica and currently available on the arXiv preprint server explores the potential for ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has beamed back its first photo of the moon's surface following its triumphant landing on Wednesday. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) posted the ...

Scientists claim they have recovered material that originated outside our solar system for the first time in history. Alien-hunting Harvard physicist Professor Avi Loeb said early analysis of ...

Scientists claim they have recovered the first ever "alien" objects as material that originated outside our solar system has been found. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb conducted research that found small ...

A spherical, impact-resilient robot, which was developed to gather data and perform science on the moon or Mars, has ...

Mars has called to us since ancient times. To humans across the eons, the red-tinted speck glinting in the night sky has garnered special attention, with myths and legends wound around its ...

The convicted killer appeared to have lost weight behind bars, and was seen at times grimacing as his lawyers tried to push a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 30 (UPI) --Ingenuity, the tiny $80 million helicopter that has hovered over Mars 55 times since April 2021, will continue mapping the planet's surface as long as it can ...