Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

A team behind the rescue of two lunar satellites left stranded by a launch anomaly have revealed the challenges they faced in ...

The asteroid is shaped like a hockey puck and is about the size of a football field in diameter which is about 60m.

YR4 asteroid is thought to be hockey puck shaped and house-sized, with the asteroid, detected in December, initially thought ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

The first samples returned from the far side of the Moon suggest it's 10-100 times drier than the side nearer Earth.

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

Visitors view Chang'e-6 mission lunar samples, collected from the far side of the moon, on display at the 15th China International Aviation and ...