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A New Jersey couple helped scientists uncover the makeup of an unusual asteroid after it fell into their bedroom. Damage to a home in Hillsborough, N.J., that was struck by a meteorite on July 16, ...

The Chinese space age is upon us. Beyond banner projects like the nation’s very own orbital space station and successful developments like reusable rocket boosters, the People’s Republic is pioneering ...

Asteroid Torifune as seen by Hayabusa2 from a little more than half a mile away JAXA / The University of Tokyo / Chiba Institute of Technology / Institute of Science Tokyo / AIST / Paris Observatory / ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that somehow fused together. By Robin George Andrews See more of our coverage ...

A Chinese space probe has beamed back the first photo of a near-Earth asteroid that some astronomers think might have once been part of the moon. Just a moment. We ...

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Near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa imaged from a distance of 20 km by Tianwen-2, July 2, 2026. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China’s Tianwen-2 sample return spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, revealing the ...

China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after traveling 1 billion kilometers (620 million miles) over more than a year, ...

As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an ...

A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help protect the planet from space rocks. The fridge-sized Hayabusa2 was due to ...