Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

Several other threatened programs may now have a better chance of staying funded, but the move indefinitely postpones our ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

BEIJING | Xinhua | Xinhua News Agency on Monday unveiled its selection of the top 10 news stories that defined China in 2025. Below is a concise summary of these key events, listed in chronological ...

In 2026, the country will celebrate the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long ...

In late November 2025, astronomers captured an unprecedented cosmic signature: the first X-ray emissions ever detected from an interstellar comet. As Comet 3I/ATLAS hurtled through our solar system at ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

A new generation of rockets aims to unlock new business models in space, including the science fiction dream of extracting resources from asteroids. Researchers are taking a closer look at asteroids ...

An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Japan ends the Akatsuki mission after more than a decade studying Venusian weather, revealing super-rotation, giant gravity ...