Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

China earlier returned rock samples from the moon's far side back to Earth in a historic mission and has welcomed ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

( NewsNation) — Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

China has successfully launched its first deep-space probe, Tianwen-2, to explore asteroids and comets — marking another ...