A large asteroid, 2003 MH4, will pass by Earth on May 24. It is about the size of the Eiffel Tower. The asteroid will travel ...

A huge asteroid, 2025 JR, has caught the world’s notice because it is on a course for a close approach to Earth.

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock, will make a close approach to Earth on May 24, 2025. While not an immediate threat, ...

The ESA wrote in its newsletter: "A new entry appeared near the top of our risk list, a moderately large asteroid ... 11 and 24 metres and with a small chance of Earth impact in 2034. The rock ...

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

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

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