In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow-up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

SNCF, the national railway company of France, is exploring the use of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules on railway tracks. The latest container-based solar-plus-storage plant developed by AREP, an SNCF ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

A shortcut for New Yorkers to spot some of the planets is to look for them when they are near the moon. On Feb. 1, Venus will appear just above the crescent moon. On the third day of the month, ...

While this planetary alignment isn't particularly rare, it is relatively uncommon. Spotting two, three, or even four bright ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

It's not especially remarkable for a few planets to line up in the sky, but the sight of four or five brilliant planets at once is less common, according to NASA. How does the ali ...