China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in launching a mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its ...

On Wednesday, 28 May 2025, the Maria-Margaretha-Kirch building on the campus of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Potsdam-Babelsberg was officially inaugurated. With the new ...

The Starship program of SpaceX faced another major setback on Wednesday, when its Starship upper stage crashed into the ...

A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers believe that it may have been deposited by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago.

A 2024 satellite photo shows four end-to-end volcanoes perfectly spaced out along the Russian island of Simushir. One of ...