A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

On July 5, 2026, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft completed the first asteroid encounter of its ...

The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of the universe in finer detail ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...

Rare images taken by a Japanese space probe during a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid have revealed that the space rock ...

On Sunday, an aging Japanese spacecraft named Hayabusa2, which completed its initial sample-return objective more than half a ...

The moon is always there, even when we can’t see it. Through all its phases and phenomena, people love to look up at our ...

A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancient Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

HBO has shared the first trailer for Questlove’s upcoming documentary about legendary R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire. The film, titled Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial Vs. That’s the Weight of the ...

Late Monday evening, the European Space Agency’s Vega-C rocket lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying a spacecraft that promises to significantly enhance our understanding of space weather.

Nester Korolev swivels a knob on a microscope, and a tiny speck of a mineral that formed hundreds of kilometers beneath Earth’s surface comes into view. Until Korolev peered at it a few years ago, no ...