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.

During its active operating phase over a few weeks, Mission Drishti validated critical technologies, operational processes, ...

The Moon and Saturn will appear close together during a beautiful conjunction on July 7, 2026. Find out why the event is special, when to watch it in EDT and IST Tand where it will be visible across ...

It's Kamoʻoalewa! (CNSA) Did you know Earth has a 'minimoon'? It's known as asteroid 2016HO3, or Kamoʻoalewa. A probe sent ...

Originally launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets, Voyager 1 transformed scientists' understanding of Jupiter and ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Some astronomers have theorized that the space rock may be a chunk of material that broke off the moon. China’s Tianwen-2 ...

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.

Scientists have put a price on the frozen ground beneath the Arctic tundra: $43 trillion in climate damage if it thaws. Here ...

"Everyone is ready to take this step together… There's no reason it's not possible." Civilians may soon be able to live in ...

While Northern Hemisphere residents endure the July heat and Southern Hemisphere residents experience the dead of winter, the entire planet is at its farthest point from the sun today, known as ...