NASA scientists have released a boatload of data from OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft orbiting the asteroid Bennu. There are…
Scientists with the New Horizons mission gathered together in Texas yesterday to discuss the latest findings about MU69.…
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa2 mission has released its first batch of scientific results on…
The second-largest asteroid to hit Earth in the last 30 years went undetected, until now.
A team of scientists just demonstrated something that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to…
NASA may have declared its Opportunity rover lost, but we’ll always have its data and bank of raw images. The mission…
The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint will honor the work of Stephen Hawking with a commemorative coin featuring the…
During the Apollo missions, NASA smartly set aside some lunar materials knowing future scientists would likely be…
Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a strange series of images in which the Moon appears…
By combining data from the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has come up with the…
An encouraging new video released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows Hayabusa2 briefly touching down on…
On October 12, 2017, a 20-meter asteroid passed just 50,000 kilometers (31,000 miles) from Earth. For weeks, dozens of…
Just months after discovering FarOut, the most distant known object in the Solar System, the same team of astronomers…
Scientists report finding evidence for an ancient planet-wide groundwater system on Mars, according to a new study. The…
Introducing Hippocamp—the smallest of Neptune’s seven inner moons. The recently discovered moon likely formed from a…
The spacecraft Hayabusa2's first touchdown onto the asteroid Ryugu is scheduled for this week. If successful, the craft…
Scientists have discovered a nearby “stellar stream” containing thousands of stars spanning the southern sky. They made…
Scientists are dreaming up ways to probe the nature of the Universe’s smallest bits—quarks—by observing ultra-dense…
A newly approved NASA mission, called SPHEREx, will use a space-based observatory to study the early conditions of the…
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