NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s ...

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and other agencies are studying a large asteroid that was discovered in 2024. While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven ...

WASHINGTON — A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about a very different threat: the impact of proposed NASA budget cuts.

Although the moon and the asteroid Vesta are very different, two NASA studies use the same technique to reveal new details about the interiors of both. Using their model, the researchers produced ...

They can tell us about the vegetation, climate and even human activity through time. When an asteroid struck Earth some 66 million years ago, the one blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs ...

BEIJING, May 18 (Reuters) - China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the country's first mission to collect samples ...

Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events just around the bend in 2025. Several companies will attempt moon ...