In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...

Which asteroids pose the greatest threat to Earth? How likely are they to strike, and what level of destruction could they ...

Large asteroids are considered a potential threat to the Earth. That's why scientists closely monitor them and record every ...

Smartphone shipments in India recovered in Q3 2020, posting 8 per cent growth to 50 million units (from 46.2 million units in year-ago period). The mission's primary goal is to obtain a sample of at ...

In Prince George the forecast is for cloudy skies until Friday. “For the best viewing you have to wait until the Gemini ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

A Chinese spacecraft that burned up high over Los Angeles created a sonic trail detected by ground-based sensors.

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever? It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the ...