A satellite and information firm has joined Space Park Leicester to support a project which monitors near Earth space. Open ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

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Earth about to pull tiny space rock into its orbit as temporary ‘mini moon’, scientists say - Space rock to orbit Earth for ...

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A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were ...

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo.

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The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on ...

Flybys of primordial black holes may occur once a decade. Tweaks to the orbits of planets and GPS satellites could give away their presence.

A new study suggests that a microscopic black hole might pass through our solar system once every decade or so.