The image, released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows asteroid Torifune, a roughly 450-metre-wide space rock that resembles two smaller asteroids joined together.

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

During last year’s brief visit from the comet 3I/ATLAS, astronomers got an extremely rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our ...

Think you have what it takes to live in a Mars and moon simulation for a year? NASA may want to select you as a volunteer.

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in knowing that plantkind as a whole will probably ...

A trio of satellites set to launch early Tuesday will give wildland firefighters more time to respond and scientists more ...

Much of the US just sweltered through the July 4 holiday weekend as an intense heat dome bore down, straining power grids and ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

When NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, launched into orbit in 2016, none of the University of ...

Nearly 660 kilometers (410 miles) beneath Earth's surface lies one of the planet's most important internal boundaries. Known ...