Typically, astronomers identify comets by their distinct atmospheres, or comae, and their tails, which are created as the sun ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced it remotely updated the software of the Hera spacecraft currently en-route to 65803 ...

Nearly 400 days and a billion kilometers after leaving Earth, China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at its target: the ...

Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...

Five asteroids are on track to pass within 4.6 million miles of Earth in the coming days, and NASA’s planetary defense system is watching each one. The objects were flagged by the Center for ...

The country's plans include spacecraft designed to detect asteroids coming from the direction of the sun, which has long been ...

Beijing will use ground telescopes and orbital satellites to track dangerous space rocks that currently go undetected.

A recent NASA study has revealed that a near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three decades ago is not, in fact, an asteroid, ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into electricity, to work in the dark. He proposes that these large mirrors could help ...

Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using polarization of light instead of traditional spectra, they uncovered evidence ...

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...