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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Europe's highly anticipated Hera mission to catalog the ... in late 2026 and inch closer to the asteroid's surface through repeated flybys until it ends up less than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer ...

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