Tianwen-2 will become the first Chinese spacecraft to bring home celestial material from beyond the Moon, where China has landed two previous sample retrieval missions. China's exploits at the Moon ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

Astronomers have just discovered a new celestial body in our solar system that could challenge major space theory. 2017 OF201 ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

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 ...

B rocket is being fueled for launch of a complex deep-space mission targeting both a near-Earth asteroid and a comet.

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

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

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...