In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

And for those of you wondering what all the excitement is about (and who are now perhaps intrigued by this adorable duo), welcome to the story about Rosetta. The mission’s goal is to look at the comet ...

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the moon — by blowing it up with nukes.

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by ...

The Orionids — one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet — will peak with the arrival of a new ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Europe’s Philae spacecraft did not have much time to do its work after surviving a bounce landing on the surface of a comet, but information it collected is reshaping ...