The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

Beyond their scientific value, these tiny satellites may also hold commercial potential. Because they briefly orbit close to ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

The Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, have traveled farther than any human-made objects in history, entering interstellar ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...