The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

For example, NASA believes that the asteroid 16 Psyche contains vast amounts of iron and nickel. Dr Linda Elkins-Tanton, a space scientist at MIT, estimates that the iron in 16 Psyche alone could ...

For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

Pieces of the asteroid Bennu, collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, are being studied at Brown as part of an effort to ...

Asteroids continue to closely approach Earth, with 10 atmospheric entries recorded this year. The latest, 2024 UQ, entered on ...

Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.

Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

Why do some robots, dolls, and animated characters make us uncomfortable? Welcome to the Uncanny Valley—a concept that shows ...