"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

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Witness the potential scale of destruction and long-term consequences of an asteroid impact on Earth. A boy and his father ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Even the most ambitious part of NASA's current plans for human spaceflight involves visiting a celestial body we've already been to: the moon. Astronauts, space buffs and an unimpressed public hunger ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...

Cities around the world trying to limit driving have faced objections — namely that the measures would limit personal freedom ...

Coral reefs around the world are losing their color at an unprecedented scale as a result of rising sea temperatures, federal ...