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.

A timeline-driven account based on rock-core drilling and global sediment layers: the initial fireball, tsunami and shock ...

Measuring roughly 95 feet across, the rock belongs to the Aten group. These asteroids have orbits that cross Earth’s path ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

An asteroid, 2025 MA90, roughly the size of a building, is set to safely fly by Earth, capturing global scientific attention.

Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

A recent review in journal Earth and Planetary Physics highlights that China's Tianwen-2 mission, launched on May 29, 2025, will carry a penetrating radar to directly probe the internal structures of ...

Three years ago, a NASA mission demonstrated something that seemed unthinkable years earlier. The mission, called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), managed to redirect the t ...