Did an asteroid enter Earth? Maoming in China witnessed a bright fireball meteor on Wednesday, followed by a loud boom that ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

It may be piece of the moon put into orbit by some sort of large impact like a meteor. Studying samples ... which will be used to map the asteroid's and comet's microenvironment.

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

Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...

The Vatican Observatory highlights NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit to help protect Earth ...

Israel's ambassador to the UK accuses minister of 'echoing Hamas propaganda' two weeks after she was summoned by him ...

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

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 ...