Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the ...

NASA ambassador Pat Monteith will discuss the unique challenges of gardening in space at a free Brockton event.

The planet Mercury is the smallest member of our solar system’s eight planets. However, its small size (4,880 kilometres in ...

This small martian satellite, the mission target for MMX, is destined to be shredded, changing the Red Planet forever.

After all, Degroot can write beautifully. Venus is “not only hotter than an oven, but hot enough to melt an oven”, while a ...

A Japanese spacecraft was on its way to one of Mars's moons on Tuesday on a world-first mission to retrieve samples, ...

An ambitious Mars mission launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Monday afternoon. Led by the Japan Aerospace ...

Japan launches a ground-breaking mission to the Mars moon Phobos today, and you can watch live. The JAXA (Japan Aerospace ...

A spacecraft has launched from Japan headed for Mars' moon Phobos, where it will attempt to grab some moondust and bring it back to Earth. If it is successful, this will become the first time a sample ...