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

China on Thursday (May 29) embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, a robotic probe that could make the ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission ... for eight seconds before a loss of signal occurs and DART's mission ends -- if it was successful. The spacecraft also has its own photojournalist ...

mission in 2009 with the goal of scanning the entire infrared sky to identify the brightest galaxies in the […] The post NASA Ends NEOWISE Asteroid Detection Spacecraft's Mission After 10 Years ...

This February, California-based asteroid mining startup AstroForge embarked on what it hoped would be one of the most important launches in history: the first commercial deep space mission.

However, even if the Psyche mission does find that its namesake asteroid contains such riches, there is no way with our current technology to bring the asteroid home. Also, extracting materials ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu ... as diatom blooms are triggered wherever iron-rich dust from the asteroid ends up in the ocean. If this unlikely — but ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing j.thomson@newsweek.com. NASA's mission to an asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion) is well on its way, using ion thrusters to get ...

the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) and the Space Mission Planning Advisory Group (SMPAG). Once initiated, the organizations leverage every available research telescope around the ...

It's scheduled to conduct a "crash scene investigation," researchers said. Hera’s mission will focus on the asteroid Dimorphos, where a golf cart-sized spacecraft crashed on Sept. 26 ...

NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) was a success, proving that we may stand a chance against the flying piles of rubble. In his new book, How to Kill An Asteroid, award ...

It has a good excuse for tardiness—that was the soonest it could arrive after completing its primary mission last fall, the delivery of precious material from an asteroid called Bennu to Earth.