Auroras (also called the northern and southern lights) are visible from the ground after powerful solar storms, but these ...

In a cosmic first, McClure and her team stared deep into the gas disk around the baby star and detected solid specks ...

Earth from space A 2014 photo shows a massive, iceberg-littered pool of vibrant blue meltwater sitting alone on top of a glacier in Alaska. Similar "melt ponds" are becoming increasingly common in ...

Earth has rarely looked as remarkable as it does in this stunning shot (above) captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station (ISS).

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and millions of glittering galaxies.

Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

An international research team has witnessed the earliest moments to date of planets beginning to form around a star beyond ...

Research on the ISS helped scientists tackle problems we can’t solve on Earth, from human biology to fire behavior and ...