Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Over 50 bird bones were recovered, some of them so small and delicate that finding them intact was a rare feat.

Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

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

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

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated one million Near Earth Objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million kilometers. Though not ...

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

NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard has issued a new list of five asteroids on approach, with close passes to Earth expected ...

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

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.