A Nasa spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday and drop off what is expected to be at least a cupful of rubble it grabbed from the asteroid Bennu, closing out a seven-year quest. The sample capsule ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
A plane-sized asteroid will safely pass by Earth today, offering scientists a chance to gather valuable data about near-Earth ...
Public pronouncements by Chinese officials on future space missions typically come true, but China is embarking on ...
The Narendra Modi government has approved Chandrayaan-4, a follow-up mission to the successful Chandrayaan-3, aimed at ...
Asteroid Apophis doesn’t currently pose a threat to Earth when it passes by in a few years, but an astrophysicist has ...
A 120-foot asteroid, similar in size to a small plane, is set to make a close flyby of Earth today. While it will pass within ...
China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.
Joel Lapointe was scouring the Cote-Nord region of Quebec for potential camping spots when he saw something unusual. There ...
A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about ...
The team has already received samples from the site, and preliminary analysis reveals that at least one contains zircon, a ...
A recently discovered asteroid will soon become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two ...