Incredible new images show the breathtaking journey of Rosetta's Philae lander as it approached and then rebounded from its first touchdown on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014.

The camera system that Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS) is providing for NASA’s 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu has successfully completed environmental testing at Lockheed ...

On Sept. 22, OSIRIS-REx soared under the South Pole, coming within 10,600 miles of Earth before using the planet's gravity to slingshot itself onto the path to the asteroid Bennu. The flyby was the ...

During the very first observations of Rosetta's flyby target 2867-Steins in March 2006 the onboard camera OSIRIS obtained the most accurate 'light curve' of this asteroid so far. During the very first ...

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock. A ...

Cameras aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured close-up shots of material being ejected from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The images offer a detailed look at small-scale mass ...

After months of painting Comet 67P's barren surface with shades of gray, the Rosetta spacecraft has finally released its first colored image of the space rock, which shows valleys, cliffs, and craters ...

Comet 67P’s activity is clearly visible in the hours leading up to its closest approach to the sun. This series of images was captured by Rosetta’s OSIRIS camera ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — An OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, led by the University of Arizona on April 14 according to UA News, brought the spacecraft within just over 200 feet of the surface of the ...

This has got to be one of the best views of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenk we’ve ever seen. It’s an animation of a series of images taken by the high-resolution OSIRIS camera on board the European ...

The first U.S. mission to return samples of an asteroid to Earth is another step closer to its fall 2016 launch, with the delivery of three cameras that will image and map the giant space rock. A ...