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

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

Here’s a look at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the United States government agency that conducts research into space. There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy ...

For example, in the recent OSIRIS-REx sample return mission ... Once scientists retrieved the return capsule from the Utah desert, they carefully transported it to a specialised facility designed ...

The capsule, containing NASA’s first-ever sample ... be complete will be late on Wednesday,” said Sandra Freund, the OSIRIS-REx mission operations manager for Lockheed Martin.