China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

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

We think of impact events as being disastrous for life,” said Dr. Nadja Drabon, a Harvard geologist whose recent research is ...

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...

Scientists have hypotheses about some of nature's biggest mysteries but are still working on proof. Some beautiful phenomena ...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

Experts believe that this type of Trojan asteroid could provide very relevant information to understand how they formed and how the planets migrated to their current positions. In total ...

Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm clouds over a green forested area, with a rain storm on the horizon.

A stadium-sized asteroid will pass by Earth on Friday, May 9. And if you're interested, you could see it happen in real time, thanks to a livestream from The Virtual Telescope Project. Known as ...