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 ...

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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 ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...

Former NASA astronaut Winston Scott has spent more than 24 days in space, completed two Space Shuttle missions and logged 19 hours on spacewalks. Over the years, he's been asked countless questions ...

The southern lights curve above the Earth as the ISS orbited above the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth, Australia. NASA / Jessica Meir A trail of glowing green lights dances in a wavy pattern as it ...