New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

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

The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system China has taken an important step in its space exploration by ...

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

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

China launches asteroid-bound spacecraft that could tell us where water comes from - China's space agency says the mission ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

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 ...

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

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission will soon be heading to two extremely different space rocks, and should provide vital ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." ...

making it one of the youngest in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter ever visited by a spacecraft. Discovered in 1981, Donaldjohanson is named after the American ...