Space

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of our planet on March 21, NASA said on Thursday. The US space agency said it will...

More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove it’s possible to replicate the feat on another world. Transported aboard the Mars 2020 spacecraft that arrives at the Red Planet...

China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. The spacecraft, launched in July around...

An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth on early Thursday, completing the first mission in four decades to collect lunar samples. While scientists hope the samples will give...

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s. The Chang’e-5...

The Nobel jury said Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany, and Andrea Ghez of the United States had won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their research on black holes. The Nobel...

NASA unveiled its latest plan yesterday to send astronauts back to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar...

The United Arab Emirates has started the journey to Mars as the first Arab country. The spacecraft was launched from the southern Japanese Tanegashima Space Center last Sunday night during Bangladesh time. The unmanned Mars mission...

Russia’s Energia space corporation said, it’ll take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new agreement with a US partner. Energia has made an agreement with Space Adventures, which promises to take two space tourists...

The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to examine the Red Planet’s atmosphere, is prepared to inspire the region’s youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said on Tuesday. The unmanned probe Al-Amal —...