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Nasa spacecraft gets up close with asteroid on collision course with Earth

The spacecraft will spend the next year completing a detailed survey of the surface of Bennu

Nasa probe to touch asteroid, help answer how planets formed, life began

The spacecraft will briefly touch Bennu's surface around July 2020 to collect at least 60 grams (equal to about 30 sugar packets) of dirt and rocks

Nasa will return to the surface of the moon 'sooner than you think'

Working with US companies is the next step to achieving long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and Mars

Nasa's InSight mission lands on Mars to explore its deep interior: See pics

'Today, we successfully landed on Mars for the eighth time in human history,' NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in his statement

NASA plans to review workplace safety culture at SpaceX, Boeing Co

SpaceX and Boeing are the two main contractors selected under NASA's commercial crew program to send astronauts to space as soon as 2019, using their Dragon and Starliner spacecraft respectively

NASA to send tissue chips to space to test human health, genetic changes

The "Tissue Chips in Space" initiative seeks to better understand the role of microgravity on human health and disease

Mystery particle spotted? Know why particle physicists are anxious

The new result - consisting of a mysterious bump in the data at 28 GeV (a unit of energy) - has been published as a preprint on ArXiv

NASA's Parker solar probe reaches closest to Sun within 78 days of launch

The spacecraft will repeatedly break its own records, with a final close approach of 3.83 million miles from the Sun's surface expected in 2024

Nasa's hubble space telescope back to normal, completes first observations

On Friday, Hubble performed activities similar to science observations, including rotating to point at different sky locations, and locking on to test targets

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope back in action after brief shutdown

The telescope is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Nasa wants to send humans to Venus - now that's brilliant idea; here's why

The idea behind NASA's new mission is not to land people on the inhospitable surface, but to use the dense atmosphere as a base for exploration

Gifts from outer space

Sixty years of NASA have provided remarkable spin-offs

Nasa launching laser satellite in September to study Earth's changing ice

ICESat-2 will improve upon Nasa's 15-year record of monitoring the change in polar ice heights

In rehearsal for future missions, NASA to send submarine to seabed: Report

The actual biological work will take place mostly through sample retrieval

Nasa launches Parker Solar Probe, mankind's first mission to touch the Sun

Liftoff took place from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the US early on Sunday

With car-sized probe, Nasa set to launch first mission to touch the Sun

The influence of solar activity on Earth and other worlds are collectively known as space weather, and the key to understanding its origins lies in understanding the Sun itself

China working on super-powerful rocket capable of outspacing NASA

By 2030, the Long March-9 rocket under development will be able to carry 140 tonnes into low-Earth orbit

NASA rover falls silent after battling giant dust storm in Mars

The robotic vehicle has shut everything down except its master clock

This NASA planet hunter is searching for worlds just like Earth

The goal of the craft is to assemble a map of 85 per cent of the sky and to suss out planets that are roughly 1 to 1.5 times the size of Earth

Nasa resuming search for alien life, to launch probe for exoplanet Apr 16

TESS will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida