The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

The curious minds at What If explain how being trapped between two asteroid belts could pose an existential threat to Earth.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close ...

Experts say Venus is hiding some asteroids that could potentially be deadly should they impact Earth. Venus currently has at ...

China's Tianwen-2 will attempt to collect asteroid samples, return them to Earth, and then head out to explore a strange, ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

NASA tracks five near-Earth asteroids flying close to our planet this week. Despite their size, none pose a threat for at ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within ...