The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

According to Barnes, within the last billion years, scientists think it was disrupted again, ultimately creating the near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu. Researchers have discovered minerals never ...

This summer, a mission originally named in Zheng He's honor but now known as Tianwen-2 will propel China deeper into space ...

China launches asteroid-bound spacecraft that could tell us where water comes from - China's space agency says the mission ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

an object that inhabits an asteroid-like orbit but whose visual features closely mirror a comet. Discovered by PanSTARRS in August 2013, it measures 1,570 ft (480 m) in diameter — larger than a ...

asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers key insights into the early solar system and the origins of life. In the latest SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson and NASA scientist Danny Glavin ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

China's space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and ...

China launched its first mission to retrieve asteroid samples, a significant step in the country's ambitious space program.