NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to study its corona and solar ...

In a remarkable coincidence, NASA astronaut Don Pettit will mark his 70th birthday with a fiery reentry through Earth’s ...

NASA is actively working on planetary defence against asteroids that could threaten Earth. Their new documentary highlights efforts being made.

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A teenager avoiding tedious tasks writes an AI algorithm that discovers millions of space objects, earns him a quarter of a ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals a new image of the Sombrero Galaxy, indicating its unique formation and merger with another galaxy.

The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep space.

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...