A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have ...

Data from NASA’s Dawn mission and simulations from Purdue University claim that up to 90% of Ceres’ outer shell may be made ...

Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

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

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

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

China has successfully launched its first deep-space probe, Tianwen-2, to explore asteroids and comets — marking another ...

China launched its mission to obtain samples from nearby asteroids, launching Tianwen-2. China will become the third country ...

Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

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

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