Bennu Is Now the Smallest Object Ever Orbited by a Spacecraft
The new year has brought important milestones for two space missions—but only one of them deals in the very survival of…
NASA Spacecraft Spots Signal of Water on Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has already detected evidence of water on its target, the asteroid Bennu, just a week…
How NASA's Mission to Bennu Will Keep Earth Safe from Asteroids
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission won’t just take pretty pictures of the asteroid Bennu—it will also help scientists learn…
NASA's Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Has Arrived at Its Target
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived today at its target asteroid, Bennu, an important step on its mission to collect a sample…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Captures Stunning View of Asteroid Bennu Ahead of Arrival
More than two years after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has beamed back what the space agency is calling a…
Instead of Nuking an Asteroid Headed Toward Earth, We Could Just Splash It With Paint
Recent headlines have contained lots of asteroid-nuking talk. There’s a team of Russian scientists zapping mini…
This Photo Showing the Earth and Moon Together Is Totally Bonkers
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently en route to Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that could contain the basic…
A NASA Spacecraft Will Slingshot Past Earth TodayÂ
Right now, NASA’s Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)…
Watch NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft Barrel Towards Earth
Something just popped into one NASA telescope’s view, and it isn’t a star or a meteor—it’s one of our spacecraft. It’s…
NASA's Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest
Right now, OSIRIS-REx is one of the busiest spacecrafts in the solar system. OSIRIS-REx, which blasted off in September…
NASA Just Successfully Launched a Spacecraft to an Asteroid
NASA’s asteroid-skimming spacecraft just blasted off into space without a hitch, completing the first step in a…
Watch NASA Launch a Rocket to Bring Us Back a Piece of an Asteroid
Tonight, NASA will send a spacecraft on a seven-year long journey to bring us back some dirt from an asteroid—without…
NASA's Trip to an Asteroid Could Reveal the Origins of Life on Earth
Tomorrow night, an asteroid-bound mission will launch towards a shadowy space rock, Bennu. There, it will scoop up a…
Humans Have Been Going to the Moon for Almost Half a Century
Forty-five years ago today, Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center on humanity's first crewed mission to the…
OSIRIS-REx Wants to Lasso an Asteroid to Explain Life on Earth
NASA has a plan to better explore how our own local star system, and life within it, got started. It wants to…
NASA probe will bring back pieces of an asteroid
Meet OSIRIS-REx, the NASA probe with the kingly name, which will be the first craft to visit an asteroid and bring…