Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...

Last month, a tiny piece of debris travelling at high speed cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft's return capsule ...

Before its final crash landing on the Moon, Japan’s Hakuto-R spacecraft snapped an extraordinary image of Earth, offering a ...

On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western Australia, according to the Australian Space Agency. Its exact origins aren’t ...

Just in May of this year, the Soviets struck a ground target from orbit. Never mind that they didn't intend to; in fact, never mind that there are no 'Soviets' anymore. A piece of Cosmos 482, a rocket ...

This was the second moon landing mission organized by the Japanese startup that concluded with a failure, except this ...

Alice Gorman is a Fellow of the Outer Space Institute. The mysterious object was on fire and lying in the middle of a remote dirt road in Western Australia’s Pilbara region when mine workers stumbled ...

Asteroid Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust ...