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The aerospace giant says it can revive Mars Sample Return with a leaner, lower-cost approach drawing on proven designs.
Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...
The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...
But then the team split over which landing site offered the best scientific return and which site was the best place for the spacecraft to safely make contact with Bennu. It was science versus safety.
A microscopic grain from asteroid Ryugu, delivered by Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe, revealed a fiery mineral that shouldn’t exist there. The unexpected find is raising new questions about asteroid ...
A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...