An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian astronomer after research revealed she was the first woman at the ...

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian woman astronomer whose pioneering work at the University of Cambridge has been uncovered more than 100 years later.

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon reach orbit, propelling the company closer to providing internet to ...

Amazon's next group of Kuiper satellites could soon launch from Florida, propelling the company closer to providing internet ...

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Explaining why the asteroid 2016HO3 was chosen for sampling, Han Siyuan, deputy director of the CNSA's Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center and spokesperson for the Tianwen-2 mission, said ...

XICHANG, May 29 (Xinhua) -- China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission represents a groundbreaking leap, becoming the first to visit both an asteroid and a comet in a single journey. Launched on 28 May, it will first rendezvous ...

That’s about one-third the size of Pluto, but nearly as large as Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt. And it’s not alone, Cheng says.