NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.

The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples to send back to Earth.

After a yearlong flight of a billion kilometers, a Chinese space probe is set to take samples from an asteroid. The mission ...

China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after travelling one billion kilometres over more than a year, the Chinese space ...

Designed to fly into the corona, the outermost region of the Sun's atmosphere, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun. During the flyby, the spacecraft went within 3.8 ...

A Japanese probe flew 400 metres (1,312 feet) from a near-Earth asteroid this month, marking the closest approach ever recorded in such a mission, the space agency has said.The previous record was ...

The most exciting parts of its mission are long behind the New Horizons space probe, but it continues to collect data. It has now been awakened once again.