The New Moon sets behind Earth's atmosphere in this long-duration photograph taken by NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick. The ...

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

Space is as mystical to the average person now as it was back in the olden days. The swarths of unexplored darkness of space ...

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

In 2011, a ghostly depression, known as "the mitten," appeared on the surface of and ice sheet in Greenland after the ...

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 astronaut Don Pettit caught the conclusion of Polaris Dawn, a private space mission that included the first-ever commercial spacewalk, during its SpaceX Dragon spacecraft's return to Earth before ...

One seasoned fire official described the Line Fire's plume as "the most impressive fire behavior, smoke column I've ever seen ...

The four-person Polaris Dawn mission launched aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule early Tuesday morning (Sept. 10). Later ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit posted a photo Tuesday of the Deer Park pipeline fire from the International Space Station.

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.