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.

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 ...

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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.

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

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Here's your chance to live like an astronaut as NASA seeks volunteers to live in a habitat for a year simulating future moon ...

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.

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 ...