The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

"Engineers with NASA’s Psyche mission are working to determine what caused a recent decrease in fuel pressure in the ...

NASA's Psyche mission to visit a gargantuan asteroid that could be worth more than the entire world economy has hit a snag.

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

However, "2025 HP" is not the only space rock flying nearby. Today, a separate 40-foot, bus-sized asteroid named "2025 HN4" ...

The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...