Workers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston remove the lid of the OSIRIS-REx sample return canister inside a glove box to prevent contamination in September 2023. (Robert Markowitz / NASA-JSC) ...

NASA is awarding a total of $6.5 million to U.S. institutions for education and training in open science. The promise of open science is that NASA research and data should be more collaborative, ...

In September, fragments of a near-Earth asteroid were carefully dropped off in the Utah desert. The space rocks hold clues to the origin of the solar system and can possibly answer crucial questions ...

HAMPTON — The shiny, silvery fabric that makes up NASA’s newest solar sail stretches to about 900 square feet, the size of a small apartment. But when it launches into low-Earth orbit for its test ...

WASHINGTON – NASA announced Thursday it will conduct a new competition for funding that remains in NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project, known as COTS. The new competition follows ...

Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey. There was only one little problem: NASA couldn’t get ...

(Tribune News Service) — Late last year, a spacecraft containing samples of a 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid landed safely in the desert after a 1.2-billion mile journey. There was only one little ...