The asteroid poses no threat to the moon or Earth. A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

In recent years, humanity has visited several near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), including Ryugu (Hayabusa2) and Didymos (DART). However, we will need more frequent missions to start gathering more helpful ...

KF, about the size of a house, will safely pass Earth today within one-third of the Earth-moon distance. Discovered just days ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The newly discovered space rock, called asteroid 2025 KF, was spotted on Monday (May 19) by astronomers at the MAP project in ...

Its speed and dimensions, however, must be kept under constant surveillance. The asteroid takes 410 days to orbit the Sun, which is approximately the number of near approaches that lie in its future.

China hopes Tianwen-2 will match the success of its US and Japanese space rivals by exploring an unusual Near-Earth Asteroid and returning rock samples.

One Pluto year equals 248 Earth years. At 1473 miles in diameter—about half the width of the United States—Pluto is the ...

The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

China launches classified comms satellite, conducts commercial sea launch China has continued an uptick in launch activity ...