Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

China’s Tianwen-2 probe operating normally on approach to asteroid China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its way to a near-Earth asteroid ahead of sampling later this year, according ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 million mi. (45M km) from asteroid 2016HO3. Credit: Space.com | footage courte ...

A Japanese probe sent to examine an asteroid 300 million kilometres from the Earth for clues about the origin of life and the solar system landed successfully on Friday, scientists said. Data from the ...

It was likely debris from Kosmos 482 — a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1972 as part of a mission to Venus. The launch failed. The probe never made it to its ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

Smile! A spacecraft just caught you — and everyone else on our planet — on camera while snapping a selfie. Our planet shines in the distance roughly 26.5 million miles (43 million km) away from ...

Space agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART ...

An unmanned Japanese spacecraft orbiting an asteroid has made surprising discoveries that scientists say will improve understanding about the origin’s of the Earth’s water and help search for life in ...

Forgot what science-fiction has told you, flying through an asteroid belt would be a major challenge for anyone.

In this conceptual image, the two-person crew uses a translation boom to travel from the Orion spacecraft to the captured asteroid during a spacewalk. Image released Aug. 22, 2013. [Read the Full ...