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 ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

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 huge asteroid is about to fly past Earth – and it’ll be getting a bit too close for comfort. The asteroid, named 2022 YS5 ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Bitcoin can't ever experience the same type of problem. What's more, NASA launched a probe in late 2023 and expects it to ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...