A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

The asteroid will pass at a distance of 6.68 million kilometres from Earth, which is roughly 17 times closer than the ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their ...

The newly discovered space rock, called asteroid 2025 KF, was spotted on Monday (May 19) by astronomers at the MAP project in ...

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

Nasa's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) and planetary defense teams are vigilantly tracking 2003 MH4’s trajectory ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...