When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. AstroForge's Odin asteroid probe, the box-shaped spaceraft at center right, is seen after launch ...

The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be over, just a week or so after it left the ground. "The chance of talking with Odin is minimal, as at this point, the accuracy of its position is ...

The air outside the mission control in Maryland was biting, the temperature barely hovering at 3°C, but inside, the tension was far colder -- measured not in degrees, but in sheer uncertainty. It was ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu, scientists expected a gentle landing. Instead, the probe sank deep into the surface — as if the ground had turned to liquid. For a ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge is making waves with its plan to land on a near-Earth asteroid in 2025. The company announced the expedition on Tuesday (August 20), also revealing that it has ...

After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu’s surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission has selected four potential sites for the Origins, Spectral ...

After a decade of interplanetary travel and a harrowing orbital entry, the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft is finally cruising within 50 kilometers of its target, the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko asteroid. To ...

The Society Celebrates Names of Members Etched on Target Marker That Guided Landing The Planetary Society sent congratulations to the Hayabusa spacecraft team at the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) for ...

A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows a mysterious dark blotch (next to the probe's shadow) where Hayabusa 2 touched down. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...

It'll be a delicate operation to collect samples from Bennu and return them to Earth, but we could learn a great deal from the pristine material on the asteroid. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...