Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

The seismic signature of a fireball meteoroid event can be used to tell whether the fireball fragmented or remained intact as ...

NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...

Even with many lawmakers in favor of maintaining NASA's budget, a flat budget is still a funding cut when accounting for ...

Security: Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth in the next 200 years. Researchers hope to learn how to better predict asteroid orbits by studying Bennu and the Yarkovsky effect.

Episodes of particle ejection from the surface of the active asteroid (101955) Bennu ...

At the Natural History Museum in London, Professor Sara Russell has been comparing the isotopic "fingerprint" of Earth's water with water found in the asteroid Bennu, captured and brought back by the ...

The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Consolmagno, who has a prodigious white beard, wavy gray bangs, and dark, beetling eyebrows, is one of fifteen scientists who ...