Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

KinetX Aerospace, Inc., the first private company to provide interplanetary navigation for NASA, has been honored with three ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Possible cuts to NASA would send some University of Arizona projects into the void. One project has already delivered substantial results and is ready for its next task. But ...

RAW color commentator Pat McAfee is currently on hiatus from calling the show and has been missing for the past three weeks.

This summer, a mission originally named in Zheng He’s honor but now known as Tianwen-2 will propel China deeper into space than ever before — its first foray into the asteroid belt.

OSIRIS-REx, the NASA New Frontiers mission being led by the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Lab, will launch in 2016, catch up with an asteroid named Bennu in 2018, and return a sample of it to Earth ...

They believe the asteroid is a plant-like object rich in water and salt, according to NASA. Named after an Egyptian bird, Bennu contains special minerals such as salts, phosphates, ammonia and ...

Tantalizing clues in 4-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu samples could reveal particular molecular formations that some scientists say support the workings of consciousness.

For instance, NASA's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft journeyed to an asteroid named Bennu and in 2020 collected samples of rock and dust that, according to a study published in January, bore some of ...

Scientists from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences were among the first in the world chosen to analyze samples retrieved by NASA ’s OSIRIS-REx mission, a seven-year endeavor to collect ...