There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

If this asteroid follows the pattern of other near-Earth asteroids after their discovery, the chances of impact will rise and then fall, according to the agency. For example, the asteroid Apophis ...

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

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

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...