The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

NASA also has perfectly good asteroid spacecraft sitting on the shelf. The twin JANUS spacecraft, originally designed for another asteroid mission, were put in storage, their mission cancelled ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid Bennu, uncovering clues about the origins of life. Scientists found amino acids, nucleobases, and evidence of past water, suggesting ...

The doorbell camera caught it all. A crew wheels the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return capsule into a cleanroom on Sept. 24, 2023. Credit: NASA / Keegan Barber NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

Ever wondered how to fly a spacecraft? Well, you’re in luck then, as NASA has just shared a video with lots of juicy details on how to fly the Orion spacecraft. Orion has already traveled around ...

as a moon lander that would ferry them from the Orion spacecraft — which launches atop SLS — down to the lunar surface. SpaceX’s deals with NASA, however, are fixed-price, meaning the ...