The images show a unique-looking asteroid, with a narrow neck connecting the object's two lobes. "These early images of ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew about 600 miles above an asteroid named Donaldjohanson on Easter Sunday sending back the first ...

“As we study the complex structures in detail, they will reveal important information about the building blocks and ...

Space science at NASA is on the chopping block.

The Lucy mission is on a 12-year journey to explore a peculiar set of asteroids that lead and follow Jupiter as it orbits the Sun. As it journeys to these Trojan asteroids, the probe is preparing for ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

The exoplanet K2-18b could harbor a massive ocean, but scientists will need to study the planet more to see if it’s really ...

NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...