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With helicopters on Mars, private crewed missions, robotic probes flying into the Sun's atmosphere, and Captain Kirk boldly going to the final frontier, 2021 was a bumper year in space exploration. Here's a look at the top stories in the Cosmos.

As Science Alert highlights, two papers recently published on the matter indicate Ryugu is dark and porous, and contains some of the oldest solar system material scientists...

In the history of humankind, exploratory missions to alien worlds are not something new. In pretty much all instances, these missions were about getting to a destination and transmitting back data about the place. As of last year, that changed.

Nasa’s about to launch a test spacecraft to fight off Earth-destroying asteroids.

When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at the tiny asteroid Bennu, scientists expected the wee world to look like a beach. Instead, it looked like a construction site. Scientists now think they know why.

The probe that NASA launched Oct. 16 is not headed to Jupiter. It is headed toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter's orbital path.

The probe that NASA launched Oct. 16 is not headed to Jupiter. It is headed toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter's orbital path.

In a study released Wednesday, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300, significantly reducing uncertainties related to its future orbit, and improving scientists’ ability to determine the total impact probability and predict orbits of other asteroids.

Asteroid Bennu is perhaps the most well-studied space rock in human history. Here is what NASA has learned from it so far.

Bennu, a rugged, rock-spewing asteroid with a diameter of about one-third of a mile, is headed in our direction.