Some astronomers have theorized that the space rock may be a chunk of material that broke off the moon. China’s Tianwen-2 ...

While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock ...

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

On Sunday, an aging Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa2, which completed its initial sample-return objective more than half a ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of ...

Unlike NASA's approach of launching two separate spacecraft, China reportedly plans to send its observer and impactor ...

A massive asteroid named Apophis will safely pass close to Earth in 2029, creating the first opportunity in human history to ...

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back the first-ever close-up image of Earth's rare quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa, an asteroid that scientists suspect could be a fragment of the Moon.