Marina Barcenilla was studying the chemical makeup of interstellar bodies when she realized she could marry her two passions ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

The first exhibition dedicated to space exploration has just landed at the Natural History Museum - and it's set to be out of this world.

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to comet 311P China has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples ...

from Earth and 735,000 miles (1,185,000 kilometers) from the Moon. Advert OSIRIS-REx captured this image not just to impress us, but as a way to test its cameras and navigation systems on its way to ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

These minimoons offer a unique opportunity to study the Moon's impact history and could serve as targets for future space missions. Minimoons are minor bodies temporarily held in Earth's gravity.

Have you ever wondered where Earth’s moon is from? One theory scientists have is that the moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago after a collision between two celestial bodies: early Earth and ...