From a return of humans to lunar orbit, to Japan's first crack at Mars, advanced space travel and exploration is set to ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

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I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

When researchers finally cracked open the canisters from asteroid Bennu, they were not just sifting through dust. They were staring at a chemical time capsule packed with sugars, amino acids, salt ...

Big asteroid heading for Earth, cue the dramatic music. Well, it’s not just Hollywood stuff. Scientists are constantly ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

NASA is cutting short a mission at the International Space Station due to a medical issue with a crew member. The agency is planning to return all four members of the Crew-11 mission more than a month ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the U.S.-Japanese-Russian ...

FEBRUARY. AND NEW TONIGHT, A MISSION INVOLVING A PITTSBURGH NATIVE IS SET TO END EARLY AFTER A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, WITH ONE OF THE ASTRONAUTS ON BOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION YESTERDAY, MIKE ...