Welcome to SolarBalls! This animated video presents the Solar System by Size, providing an engaging and educational ...

Eventually, we'll launch a mission dedicated solely to studying an interstellar object. When that day comes, which one should ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

NASA’s exploration roadmap extends far beyond the International Space Station. Over the next several ...

The image, released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), shows asteroid Torifune, a roughly 450-metre-wide space rock that resembles two smaller asteroids joined together.

A giant planet circling a dead star should not be there. That was the puzzle hanging over WD 1856 b ever since astronomers ...

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later.

The technology could be used to send probes across interstellar space to other star systems.

Earth sustains human life because it’s an ocean planet. The concept is basic, but it’s also elusive enough that astronaut ...

Claire Parfitt's space career began with a NASA rejection and cleaning a replica toilet. She later joined the National Space ...

Cleaning a space toilet while on work experience was Claire Parfitt's first introduction to a career away from Earth's orbit.