The asteroid has been compared to a lumpy bowling pin by space-watchers, with NASA describing it as looking like two ice ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured its first high-resolution images of an asteroid, revealing a space rock with a surprising shape. Asteroid Donaldjohanson formed when two smaller ...

First planet of its kind with ‘gargantuan’ comet-like tail discovered - Planet’s ‘tail’ is millions of miles long, ...

Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has captured striking images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing it to be a contact binary with an ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

By analysing a digital model of the roof using a wealth of data, property owners can make far more informed decisions about ...

NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...