Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

[Photo/Xinhua] China is set to launch its first asteroid ... NASA's OSIRIS-REx, to collect surface materials and then fly back to Earth's orbit, where its reentry module containing the samples will be ...

Gutting NASA is a preventable disaster,” writes Christopher Cokinos in an op-ed. “Congressional voices on both sides of the ...

It’s like trying to dock a boat with a mountain floating in space and tumbling really unpredictably and with almost no ...

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 ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 ...

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

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...