The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

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

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study published in the ...

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

Scientists and space enthusiasts are preparing to monitor the passage of the small asteroid 2025 KX3 near planet Earth. Although it will pass at a safe distance, this event is being closely monitored ...

They orbit with Venus, but they’re headed our way. A newly modeled population of stealthy asteroids could pose a collision risk to Earth.

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

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 ...

The success of China's Tianwen-1, which sent the Zhurong rover to Mars, paved the way for Tianwen-2 and future missions, such ...

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