NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.

And in the past decade, more than 20 spacecraft have ventured into the deepest reaches of our solar system. These probes ... sending back pictures that humble or awe, even as they advance ...

ESA/Hubble In a first for astronomers surveying the depths of space, carbon dioxide has been detected on an exoplanet – that is, a planet lying outside our solar system. Thanks to the coronagraph ...

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

PUNCH, a bold new NASA mission, has successfully taken its first images of the Sun’s corona from orbit using four ...

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

Aside from the multitude of satellites in orbit around our own planet there are ... it has been returning unprecedented images and data about the solar system’s innermost planet.

The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first ...

"We want to take pictures of other solar systems and see how they're similar or different when compared to ours. From there, ...