On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced ...

A Chinese commercial space launch company is continuing its success with a small solid rocket ahead of a more ambitious ...

The asteroid, named 2022 CE2, is estimated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be about 370 feet across, with JPL's ...

Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare ...

Intuitive Machines, which landed on the moon with its robotic IM-1 mission in February 2024, will be launching IM-2 as soon as January, also on a Falcon 9. The mission is optimized for the lunar south ...

The Alinda asteroid will be visible with binoculars in a 'once in a decade' event as it brushes past Earth, with its return ...

This spring, the country plans to launch a mission to collect samples of an asteroid — its first such expedition. The plan calls for a spacecraft called Tianwen-2 to rendezvous with a near-Earth ...

Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan parted ways early Wednesday after being launched on the ...

China's Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and study a ...

Investigating an asteroid with Tianwen-2 China’s Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for launch in May 2025, Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples ...

TWO lunar landers are scheduled for launch next week, as scientists gather the data necessary to set up human habitation on ...