China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

Tianwen-2 will orbit the 311P/Panstarrs comet in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter ... Japanese ispace craft had 'hard landing' in failed lunar mission June 5 (UPI) -- After losing ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the launch of SpaceX's Starship 9 after two explosions idled the program for ...

No one has ever developed a truly reusable orbital heat shield, it’s extremely difficult to do so. Even the Shuttle’s heat ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

Astronomers have identified a cluster of giant asteroids sharing Venus's orbit, posing a potential long-term threat to Earth ...

While parts of southern Australia grapple with drought a central outback landmark have become saturated with travelling ...

Most asteroids orbit within the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. But some follow paths that circulate into the inner solar system, including so-called near-Earth ...