HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being ...

In January 2025 NASA made an important announcement. An asteroid had just been detected by a telescope in Chile, passing by at just twice as far from Earth as the moon. And based on available ...

SHI YICHEN/XINHUA China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province ...

The US House Committee on Space, Science, and Technology held a working meeting with scientists to discuss what NASA can do if a hazardous asteroid is detected to be on a collision course with Earth.

An asteroid nearly the size of three football fields is heading toward Earth for what astronomers are calling a “close approach", prompting heightened surveillance by NASA’s planetary defence teams.

A giant asteroid, larger than the Eiffel Tower, is set to fly past Earth this weekend, prompting fresh concerns among scientists about the ongoing threat from space. Named 387746 (2003 MH4), the ...

Instead of being anchored to the Earth, this design envisions a colossal structure suspended upside down from an asteroid strategically placed in geosynchronous orbit around the planet. Tethered by ...

BEIJING, May 18 — China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported today, in the country’s first mission to collect samples from ...

For the weekend, here's a brief overview of everything that didn't make it into the news but that we still think is exciting: ...