During its flyby, Parker snapped some amazing close-up images of the Sun, which NASA finally released to the public yesterday ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m).

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare atmospheric phenomenon over the US and Mexico known as a "sprite" that's ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth ...

Based on the comet's brightness and current distance — it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit — scientists estimate its ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

ASTRONAUTS visiting Mars could unearth a museum of alien fossils that may have belonged to an intelligent civilisation.

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the ...