New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter ...

For years, a tiny space rock has been quietly following Earth on its journey around the Sun, hiding in plain sight as one of ...

The shiny objects—each roughly twice the size of a basketball—began to appear on July 3. Authorities initially worried that ...

Mission Embrace aims to perform the world's first in-orbit demonstration of soft robotic capture for future active debris ...

Astronomers using computer simulations have investigated whether a class of star clusters nicknamed "cosmic wallflowers" ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up image of Kamoʻoalewa. This rare quasi-satellite is often called ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

Can planets survive after their stars die? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

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

Cosmoserve Space's Mission Embrace will fly aboard Skyroot's maiden orbital launch to demonstrate soft robotic satellite capture technology for future active space debris removal missions ...

A special payload called Cosmic Bloom, developed by Cosmos Diamonds, will be one of the payloads on Vikram-1. The payload ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a carbon-rich atmosphere on a tiny world orbiting a dead, rapidly spinning ...