China’s Tianwen-2 has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a tiny quasi-satellite of Earth, beginning a mission to collect samples and ...

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

A tiny asteroid no wider than a football pitch has been quietly puzzling astronomers for years, and a Chinese spacecraft is ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...

Tianwen-2 asteroid mission closes to within 20 kilometers of Kamoʻoalewa on July 4, 2026 — China‘s first sample-return probe ...

China has reached a major milestone in deep-space exploration as its Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrives at the enigmatic near-Earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers have found a space rock that has been quietly hanging around Earth for decades: a tiny asteroid named 2025 PN7. This ...

A near-Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's newest quasi-moon.

You may have heard a lot of online chatter about Earth's two moons recently, but that doesn't quite get the discovery right. Earth still only has one true natural satellite — our 2,159-mile-wide moon ...