Recent advancements in asteroid research, particularly through the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, have unlocked ...

Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter is an enormous ring of space rocks. The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an ...

An Australian company that is a leader in taking images of spacecraft in low Earth orbit wants to widen its aperture to monitor higher orbits and beyond.

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our ...

Tianwen 2 will collect samples and deliver them back to Earth in late 2027, using a reentry capsule. Then the spacecraft will ...

Sunlight also plays a role. As asteroids absorb heat from the sun and re-emit it, they experience a tiny push, known as the ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday unveiled a remarkable image of the Tianwen-2 probe alongside ...

The Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...

The Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...

NASA ends DSOC test with final laser message from Psyche, received 218 million miles away—completing 65 high-speed ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

In December 2024, the spacecraft successfully beamed an infrared laser message back to Earth from a mind-boggling distance of ...