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.

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NASA is preparing for a rescue that sounds more like a stunt than routine mission control: send a robot into orbit, find an ...

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

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It implies or requires that the angrite parent body had to be big, but the question is, where is it now?” CU Boulder ...

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

Mysterious metallic orbs washed up on a secluded beach in Australia, and experts say they likely fell from a spacecraft.

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 ...