A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

One of the defining characteristics of Mars are its craters. Direct asteroid strikes are no doubt responsible for many of the ...

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

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

NASA scientists have discovered evidence that could help answer questions surrounding the history of water loss on Mars.

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...

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

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

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...