YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic sensors by a team of ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

VIAVI Solutions is contributing to NASA's SPHEREx mission, launched on March 11, 2025. The mission, led by NASA's JPL and ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

VIAVI Solutions announced its contribution to NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

In 2020, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe successfully touched the asteroid briefly, finding a loose collection of ...