For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks about scaling back its own lunar ambitions.

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

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

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

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

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

NASA hasn’t landed humans on Mars yet. But thanks to robotic missions, scientists now know more about the planet’s surface ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with th ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...