The mission will focus on solving the mystery of the Gruithuisen Domes which were first discovered in the 1800s.
The space rock has a higher probability of an impact than any other asteroid we've seen in recent years.
Scientists now believe that our solar system may have once been visited by something very large indeed.
Security camera footage captured the moment a meteorite slammed into the ground outside a home in Canada.
The ring, which was described as 'red and hot' at the time, crashed into Kenya's Mukuku village on December 30th.
Back in 2007, astronomers picked up an intense burst of energy that would spark a mystery that endures to this day.
The probe is spending Christmas Eve attempting to fly closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft in history.
It looks as though we're going to be waiting a little bit longer to see humans walking on the surface of the Moon.
New research has highlighted a place on Mars where we could still potentially find primitive alien life forms.
Scientists were amazed to discover microbial life in samples that had been returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu.
The clandestine vehicle has been in space for almost a year on its latest mysterious mission.
Known as Skynet-1A, the satellite was launched in 1969 just a short time after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
Scientists now believe that a small moon orbiting Uranus may be capable of harboring primitive alien life forms.
The signal had been sent as part of an exercise to see how we would fare if a genuine alien signal was ever picked up.
It appears as though the first astronauts to set foot on the Moon in over 50 years will be doing so in style.
The spacecraft will be trying to answer some of the most critical questions about Europa and its subsurface ocean.
A new study has highlighted the potential for finding habitable extrasolar worlds around F-type stars.
After covering 20 miles across the Martian surface, it is perhaps no surprise that the rover has taken a few dints.
In an unexpected discovery, it turns out that lockdown actually had a measurable impact on the lunar surface.
It is perhaps ironic that Earth's deadliest weapons of mass destruction could potentially save us all from catastrophe.