China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital data to help us understand the nature of asteroids and comets ...

Unable to accelerate to light-speed due to a damaged hyperdrive motivator, the supremely confident Solo recklessly directs his craft into ... pass through the asteroid belt unscathed?

Information from Lucy's other instruments will be downloaded from the craft and processed within ... the next two years traveling through the asteroid belt, arriving at its next target Aug ...

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 ...

The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter ... 2026 before it arrives at Psyche in 2029. The craft is propelled using electric ion thrusters, which ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away that it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight ...

Currently some 117 million miles from Earth, Vesta is the second-largest resident of the asteroid belt, a zone between Mars and Jupiter filled with hundreds of thousands of space rocks orbiting ...

It's located in the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars and takes ... Machines' IM-1 lunar lander guidance, the first U.S. craft to land on the moon in 50 years. The Maruthiakella asteroid ...

29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth. Now, as the asteroid is set to depart from view, evidence is suggesting it was visiting its ...