A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The area around Minami Torishima, which is in Japan's economic waters, is estimated to contain more than 16 million tons of ...

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

In a complicated maneuver, NASA and ESA wanted to bring soil samples from Mars to Earth. But that won't happen, the USA is ...

New dating of pigments reveals that cave paintings in the Lower Pecos region of Texas could be nearly 6,000 years old.

China creates ingestible, luminous microspheres that detect intestinal bleeding and are retrieved with a magnet, a ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Congressional supporters of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission have buckled to pressure from the Trump administration to ...