World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

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

The second is the Kuiper Belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune.But there are still many more floating around out there.Scientists estimate that roughly 44 tonnes of meteoric debris fall toward Earth every ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The next waypoint on Psyche's voyage will be a flyby of Mars in May 2026. Officials expect Psyche to keep that date, which is ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) anticipates that this mission will ...

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...