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

Comets are icy bodies that orbit the Sun, often referred to as ‘dirty snowballs’. Learn about their composition, formation, ...

The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

Comets are notoriously unpredictable ... between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. It wouldn’t reach perihelion — its closest point to the Sun — until Sept. 27, 2024. But immediately ...

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

"It's astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter's physical state at the dawn of its existence," stated Fred C. Adams, professor of physics and ...