Analysts say the Torifune fly-by highlights Tokyo’s growing role in global space safety efforts and its ‘goodwill science’ ...

NASA has reached major milestones in asteroid exploration. Here are five highlights.

Every night, a handful of robotic telescopes scan the sky for faint points of light that do not belong where they are. Most ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is on a long-haul, first-of-its-kind voyage to unlock the secret history of our solar system, but it’s also filling in more details about more ordinary space rocks along the ...

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

Unlike NASA's approach of launching two separate spacecraft, China reportedly plans to send its observer and impactor ...

A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way.The Psyche mission, ...

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in ...

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

International Asteroid Day highlights global efforts to detect, track and deflect potentially hazardous asteroids while ...

The country's plans include spacecraft designed to detect asteroids coming from the direction of the sun, which has long been ...