Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

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

Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could potentially be deadly should they impact Earth. Venus currently has at ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

Venus could be hiding asteroids that would be deadly if they hit Earth, some experts say. A new study published in 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 robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/ ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...