After completing the asteroid sampling mission, the Tianwen-2 return capsule is expected to land on Earth and complete its recovery by the end of 2027. Subsequently, the main spacecraft will continue ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our planet. This article aims to shed light on the specifics of this sizeable ...

Buried under 700 meters of sediment, the Silverpit crater preserves a 43-million-year-old asteroid impact like few others on ...

NASA has estimated that the metals in these asteroids could be worth as much as $10 billion per person, and mining the richest ten asteroids could yield $1.5 trillion. However, the actual extraction ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

A remarkable scientific breakthrough has resolved a long-standing debate about the origin of the Silverpit crater, located deep below the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire. After years of ...

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...

Earth's oceans hold an estimated 20 million tons of gold, a treasure worth quadrillions, yet its extremely low concentration ...

Scientists are closely monitoring Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object. Discovered in July 2025, it's moving at record ...