The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system's outer reaches.

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

The global scientific community was watching with keen interest as China launched its Tianwen-2 probe on Thursday, a ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

NASA’s quantum computer research helps us learn more about space. Quantum algorithms can solve hard problems and help with ...

China has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth – part of broader efforts to explore the ...

The “The Little Star that Could” will take visitors of the Mackie Planetarium on a virtual trip to Saturn for its final show ...