In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the ...

The iconic Earthrise image of our planet rising above the lunar horizon, taken in 1968 by astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 mission, is widely credited ... it’s become commonplace to rely on these ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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

"These early images of Donaldjohanson are again showing the tremendous capabilities of the Lucy spacecraft as an engine of ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...

Some amazing pictures were taken on Sunday ... There isn’t a prouder Scotsman on the planet than me this morning.” We previously reported that Paddy McGuinness joined Sir Tom Hunter to rally walkers ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures ... planets in our solar system." The spacecraft was launched in 2021 to study the unexplored so-called Trojan asteroids out near Jupiter. Eight ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

Lucy Guo, the 30-year-old cofounder of Scale AI, has become the youngest self-made woman billionaire by holding onto her ...