Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Ranging from galaxies on the brink of collision to solar eclipses on another world, these NASA images reveal the vast complexity of the cosmos, and the impacts we are having on our own planet.

NASA/Don Pettit Earth's city lights streak by in this long-exposure photo taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on Oct. 24, 2024. The green glow of ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, offering a glimpse into our ...

A strange Earth shines in new imagery captured by a European asteroid mission. The Hera spacecraft, which launched this month to study a binary asteroid system up close. turned its gaze back at our ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Israel has begun a construction project along a demarcation line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria ...

This 2012 satellite photo shows a quartet of near-identical glaciers on Canada's Ellesmere Island. The ice masses help to spark life in the otherwise barren Arctic environment.

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Commercial satellite images reveal that North Korea has carved at least two large trenches across roads and rail lines on its ...

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