This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

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 ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

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

Raman spectroscopy uses scattered light to identify a substance's chemical ingredients and is one of the most widely used ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in launching a mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...

The Estes Valley Astronomical Society is offering a free public lecture on Saturday, May 31st, 7:30 pm at the Estes Park Memorial Observatory.  The goal of EVAS is to promote amateur astronomy and ...