The spacecraft's NavCam 1 - one of three cameras that comprised its 'Touch-and-Go' camera system - snapped the photo 804,000 miles (1,297,000 kilometers) from Earth and 735,000 miles (1,185,000 ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow ...

When Elon Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype satellites into a rocket’s nose cone six years ago, there were fewer ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

A whole population of 'minimoons' - tiny natural satellites - may be quietly circling near Earth, scientists now believe, ...

"If there were only one object, that would be interesting but an outlier. If there's two, we're pretty confident that's a ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

For decades, scientists believed Vesta, one of the largest objects in our solar system's asteroid belt, wasn't just an asteroid and eventually concluded it was more like a planet with a crust, mantle ...

This asteroid is about the size of a large building, and it's hurtling along at tens of thousands of kilometres per hour. If ...