TN17, a giant space rock as big as the Taj Mahal, is hurtling towards Earth at 77,282 km/h, classified as a potentially ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Some studies have suggested that they're material from the ancient Earth — either a layer of primordial unmixed rock from the planet's formation or a leftover hunk of the giant space rock that ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

EARTH can once again start making plans for December 2032. Nasa has announced "city-killer" asteroid YR4 is unlikely to collide with our planet that month, and has a 99.9961 per cent chance of ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb ... We studied sections of rock, from older to younger, through the snowball period to melt down. By doing this, we built up a picture ...