China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

A recently discovered asteroid has entered the limelight, putting scientists around the world on alert. According to a study ...

July's third quarter moon phase occurs at 8:38 EDT (0038 GMT) on July 17. At this moment, skywatchers in the northern ...

"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, the 2nd in the Tianwen series, will reach Kamo'oalewa in July 2026. The probe will map the asteroid, collect samples, and carry them back to Earth in a ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...