A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

Researchers at BRIN have confirmed that the bright celestial object on Saturday night, July 11, 2026, was a large meteor.

It's the "smallest object that humans have visited with a spacecraft." The post Chinese Spacecraft Approaches Mysterious ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...

"People will be hurt and killed" if we're not vigilant, scientists warn.

Chinese scientists may have just found a way to save the world from a future Armageddon after calculating exactly how to ...

Astronomers in Arizona turned to artificial intelligence to test out a new method of classifying meteors based on their physical properties and origin.

China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-2, has been hunting down its target — a so-called quasi-moon — ever since it launched from Earth ...

The fight to claim a 3.5-tonne space rock didn't just kickstart a publicity battle that divided an empire — it also left a ...

TOKYO — A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday, in a test mission for technology that ...

People often use the words meteor and meteorite interchangeably, usually when describing a bright streak of light crossing the night sky. The distinction is simple, though the objects involved are ...

A corner of South Korea is in the grip of a frenzied hunt for valuable space souvenirs, following a rare meteor shower there last week. Hundreds of people have been scouring hills and rice paddies for ...