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NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to touch down in Utah on Sept. 24 with samples of asteroid Bennu. Watch live.

The return capsule of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to touch down in Utah on Sept. 24, bearing samples of asteroid Bennu. Here's how to watch the event live.

NASA’s journey to uncover the secrets of asteroid 16 Psyche comes as its prepares to receive a sample of another asteroid and study another close-up.

A doctoral study at IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) by a scientist of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) has found 20 new sites on Mars where gullies - s

NASA's Psyche mission is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Oct. 5 and begin heading toward its metal-asteroid namesake.

NASAs Psyche mission is scheduled to launch toward its metal-asteroid namesake atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Oct. 5.

NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 6, to discuss the agency’s upcoming Psyche mission, which will be its first to visit a metal-rich asteroid. Riding along with Psyche is a laser transceiver for NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration.

The American spacecraft DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed in the world’s...

Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it has a primitive composition and a curiously dark colour

Martian ‘blueberries’ find a parallel on Earth Updated: Updated: Similar haematite concretions have been found in Kutch, Gujarat Share Article AAA Geochemistry: Investigations of the haematite concretions in the Jhuran formation (left) revealed the resemblance to the ones on Mars (right).   | Photo Credit: NASA Similar haematite concretions have been found in Kutch, Gujarat In 2004, NASA’s Mars exploration rover ‘Opportunity’ found several small spheres on the planet, informally nam...