China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed ...

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Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close ...

MA90 is set to pass today, that is July 15, 2025; however,, it is reportedly to safely pass by Earth. Scientists are ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

University of Maryland astronomers discovered that an unexpected blast of space rocks ejected during DART mission carried ...

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China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main asteroid belt. The second in China's interplanetary exploration program ...