China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission is well on its way to its target, an asteroid called Kamo'oalewa. The spacecraft left ...

Earth is facing two major natural threats: one from deep space and one from beneath our feet. In this playlist, we look at ...

An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.

Could this Soviet-era spacecraft be pretending to be a "dark comet?" The post Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is ...

A study challenges the lunar origin of the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa and points to a different and surprising origin.

Tianwen-2 asteroid orbit insertion at quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa is set for June 7, days away, after amateur radio teams in ...

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes ...

The asteroid was discovered on May 10 by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey, an astronomical project based in Arizona’s ...

Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2 will safely pass just 90,000 km above Earth on 18 May, offering astronomers a rare and dramatic close flyby.

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon.

A discovery by a South Korean research team suggests that impact-generated lakes may have fostered early oxygen-producing ...

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...