The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a spectrometer from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and a Varda enhanced ...

Unlike most space exploration robots, OSIRIS-REx will return back home to drop its precious asteroid sample into Earth's atmosphere; from there the sample will plummet to the surface. NASA's ...

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full moon turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted through Earth’s shadow in a total lunar eclipse.

"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...