The spacecraft kissed the surface of astroid Bennu a little after 6 p.m. ET. A NASA spacecraft briefly touched the surface of an asteroid, attempted to collect a sample of extraterrestrial rocks and ...

It’s often referred to as the ‘doomsday asteroid ’, but that hasn’t stopped NASA from exploring the Bennu space rock. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the space rock back in December 2018, and ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is getting ready to collects its first rock samples on Mars, which should eventually make their way back to Earth. Eyeing the floor of an ancient lakebed, Perseverance is ...

Imagine parallel parking a 15-passenger van into just two to three parking spaces surrounded by two-story boulders. On Oct. 20, a University of Arizona-led NASA mission 16 years in the making will ...

Tuesday's 'touch and go' maneuver collected a pristine sample of the early solar system for return to Earth. NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has now fulfilled its primary mission, to collect a sample ...

NASA had aimed to collect its first sample of Martian rock using the Perseverance rover yesterday, Friday, August 6, but the sampling attempt didn’t go as planned. The rover failed to collect a rock ...

Although NASA has enjoyed a string of high-profile successes on the red planet, sometimes Mars throws scientists a curveball. The Perseverance rover came up empty during its first attempt to collect a ...