The images show a unique-looking asteroid, with a narrow neck connecting the object's two lobes. "These early images of ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...

CICLOPS, JPL, ESA, NASA We've been looking at other planets through ... NASA The solar panel and robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander. Image was captured from an animation.

Imagine setting out for a springtime stroll. Not here on Earth but on some distant planet — call it Novathis-458b — orbiting ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images ... the first planet orbiting another star outside of our solar system. Although astronomers had suspected that there were other worlds ...

NASA-funded facilities take multiple images over time and use software to detect moving objects. These survey telescopes then send their measurements to the Minor Planet Center at Harvard ...