Your deepest emotional needs are revealed through your Ceres placement. This placement offers valuable insights, suggestions, ...

A study has proposed that to draw out this water, a space elevator can be built on Ceres, Universe Today reported. Researchers at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Industrial CNT state ...

What was supposed to be a two-year stint turned into a long-term love story with Luxembourg. Ola, originally from Egypt and a seasoned expat, shares her heartfelt journey of discovering a country that ...

This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future. New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of ...

A so-called "city killer" asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't hit the Earth — but the moon might not be so lucky. Astronomers and scientists previously expressed some concern that the asteroid could ...

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Earth. Skip to main content.

June 7, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

China's latest spacecraft aims to bring 'groundbreaking' samples back from asteroid near Mars A CNSA handout shows the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it ...

That's one reason why Tianwen-2's roundtrip journey to asteroid Kamoʻoalewa will last just two-and-a-half years. Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission lasted six years from launch ...

Ranging from house-sized boulders to Ceres, a dwarf planet nearly 1,000 kilometers across, asteroids preserve pristine records of the early solar system's composition and conditions.

Over a decade, Tianwen-2 will sample rocks from a near-Earth asteroid, return them to Earth and then visit a comet. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported.