Asteroid Bennu has been keeping a secret for 4.5 billion years, and scientists are finally starting to uncover it. New ...

Comet origin of life Earth research gets new challenge: Cambridge Monte Carlo simulations published October 28, 2026 in ...

Sand weighing half as much as a one-yen coin has shaken the conventional wisdom about an asteroid's birthplace.Of the samples ...

Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft is now on its way to Mars, preparing to provide a further test of the ...

Asteroid Bennu has puzzled scientists for years. Its surface is covered with massive boulders, a landscape that should, in ...

A massive spaceship appears in the night sky. Communications are cut off, and cities around the world are attacked. Humanity ...

Near earth asteroid mining hinges on type. Bennu and Ryugu samples back water-rich C-types, while no M-type has been sampled.

October 15, 2026 8:16 pm ET | Japan's space agency is getting ready to launch the MMX mission to study the moons of Mars, ...

OSIRIS-REx drew on decades of our experience building spacecraft for planetary exploration, incorporating technologies and design approaches from missions including Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN ...

Lawrence Livermore researchers ran 3D simulations of a nuclear blast against a hypothetical 160-meter asteroid. Two of the ...

JAXA's MMX probe will orbit Phobos, drop a rover and scoop at least 10 grams of the moon for Earth labs, the first sample ...

After decades of setbacks, Japan is assembling the technology, partnerships and patience required for a return to the Red Planet, and for a role in the next era of planetary exploration. The first ...