NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

US startup Karman+ has raised $20m in seed funding to further its mission of mining space resources from asteroids ...

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free retires after 30+ years, leaving a legacy of leadership in space exploration.

February 18, 2025, a large asteroid, 2025 CA2, will pass by Earth at an incredible speed of 16,490 miles per hour. This ...

REx mission found minerals on asteroid Bennu that match California’s Searles Lake, offering clues about ancient water, ...

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free announced Wednesday his retirement, effective Saturday, Feb. 22. As associate ...

Official portrait of NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, taken on Nov. 22, 2024, at the agency's headquarters in ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...

Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...