The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

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Asteroids are small rocky bodies that travel around the Sun. They are much smaller than planets. They are very important because they can give us clues about the early composition of the Solar System.

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The OSIRIS-REx program is scheduled to wind down at the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. But people will keep studying the samples. They’re at NASA, they’re available for research. It’s ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Meteorites offer rare clues to our solar system’s earliest days. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements.

The OSIRIS-APEX mission, a follow-up to OSIRIS-REx, which successfully returned a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023, has repurposed the spacecraft to visit a new target, asteroid Apophis.

NASA's Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI) team supports a broad range of mission needs across the agency, including Artemis, science missions like OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral ...

What’s underneath Meteor Crater is weirdly folded and smushed-up rock. On the Moon, the hope is to find ice. Wes Patterson leads the radar instrument team at Johns Hopkins University. "Looking for ice ...

Now, They Could Rewrite the T. Rex Family Tree Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by researchers and found to represent a previously unknown species ...