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

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.

China launched a mission to retrieve asteroid samples. The Tianwen-2 robotic probe will visit asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and comet 311P/PanSTARRS. Kamoʻoalewa is between 40m and 100m in size. China ...

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 ...

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 ...

The paleontologist for whom the asteroid is named plans to be at spacecraft builder and operator Lockheed Martin's Mission Control for all the action. He discovered the fossil Lucy in Ethiopia 50 ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...

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 ...