The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

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

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

A gyroscope navigation system developed by an Irish company is to be launched into space as part of a mission to test and ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

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

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX has launched the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission on Monday morning, which will follow up on a NASA mission two years ago when it ...

China has launched its most ambitious deep space mission yet. On Wednesday, the Tianwen-2 probe lifted off atop a Long March ...

The newly discovered space rock, called asteroid 2025 KF, was spotted on Monday (May 19) by astronomers at the MAP project in ...