On March 2, 2004, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P. Rosetta would later become the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. It was also the only mission to attempt a ...

On March 6, 1986, the Soviet Union's Vega 1 spacecraft flew by Halley's Comet. Vega 1 was the first of five missions to fly ...

A chemical found in the atmosphere around an exoplanet that leads researchers to believe the planet may harbor life is called ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...

The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

The spacecraft makes its sixth and final flyby ... The shower is the first of two each year created by Halley's Comet debris. The celestial event will be active from April 20 to May 21.

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.