China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has sent back the first-ever close-up image of Earth's rare quasi-satellite Kamoʻoalewa, an asteroid that scientists suspect could be a fragment of the Moon.

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The image, released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows asteroid Torifune, a roughly 450-metre-wide space rock that resembles two smaller asteroids joined together.

Miami-based City Labs is launching the world's first commercial nuclear-powered spacecraft atop an upcoming SpaceX mission.

The Moon and Saturn will appear close together during a beautiful conjunction on July 7, 2026. Find out why the event is special, when to watch it in EDT and IST Tand where it will be visible across ...

It's Kamoʻoalewa! (CNSA) Did you know Earth has a 'minimoon'? It's known as asteroid 2016HO3, or Kamoʻoalewa. A probe sent ...

The flyby, although successful, was not a part of the original plan for Hayabusa2.

Some astronomers have theorized that the space rock may be a chunk of material that broke off the moon. China’s Tianwen-2 ...

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NASA is preparing for a rescue that sounds more like a stunt than routine mission control: send a robot into orbit, find an ...