Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet, last seen in 1986, leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids. When this meteor shower ...

A house-sized asteroid flew past Earth while you were asleep. The space rock designated 2025 KF made its closest approach at ...

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

They assumed a 2.5 km radius comet made of pure water ice coming in perpendicular to the exoplanet's surface, delivering water and thermal energy onto an Earth-like atmosphere of the exoplanet ...

China's ambitious Tianwen-2 mission is heading for to two extremely different bodies in our solar system, and should provide ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

There's a blaze of light across the sky! A fireball is seen by thousands, and mobile phone and dashcam footage soon appears ...

It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and at all ...

A Soviet space probe launched in the 1970s on a failed mission to Venus is expected to land back on Earth as early as this ...

Much of the spacecraft came tumbling back to Earth within a decade of the failed launch. No longer able to resist gravity’s ...