The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

The Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...

The gradual recession of the moon continues at a rate of 1.5 inches per year, offering critical clues about the dynamics of the early Earth-moon system. Ongoing Mysteries and Future Discoveries ...

For over four billion years, the Moon has been orbiting Earth — but where did it come from? The Moon has been a constant ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

The asteroid, also known as 469219 Kamo'oalewa, orbits the sun, so it remains a constant companion of Earth. It is too ...