Some objects were placed in space on purpose, symbolic gestures meant to inspire or amuse. Others were lost by accident, abandoned or forgotten during ambitious missions.

NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology' House-sized asteroid will pass within 72,000 miles of Earth on May 21 ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

On May 29, the Tianwen 2 probe was successfully launched into space onboard a Long March 3B rocket, which took off from the Xichang spaceport in southwestern China at around 1:31 a.m. local time ...

NASA have found something new moving in our Solar System. Even thought it's not water, still a phenomenon worth of time ...

Chinese officials have revealed the first-ever photo of the country's highly secretive Tianwen 2 spacecraft, two weeks after it was launched into space. The elusive probe, which bears a striking ...

A little-known fact to the general public is that there's more moving around Jupiter's orbit than just the giant gas planet. The first of these little-known companions to the Jovian giant was ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Cerebral space-probe analyst turns death-ray mastermind . By Tom Beal ARIZONA DAILY STAR Jan 25, 2006 Jan 25, 2006; 1 of 2 ...

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole reveal a messy jumble of magnetic activity in a never-before-seen region of our nearest star. The images, taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft and ...