"Asteroids that fail to escape Earth's gravity and end up orbiting the planet for a time are referred to as mini-moons," 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 ...

The Earth has pulled in moons of this type before but none have ever stuck around as long as the moon we know.

S tarting in late September, Earth is going to have a second moon for two brief months, as a small asteroid piece will be ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

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

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

The inner core is surrounded by the outer core ... are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated to solving our planet's mysteries.

If the United States and the former Soviet Union could cooperate on space efforts during the Cold War, then tensions between nations on Earth today don’t have to extend to diplomacy and agreements ...

From a solar eclipse to a dolphin-like nebula, these winning shots by astrophotographers from around the world depict the ...

You stand at the shore of a desolate ocean on a desolate world. As the dawn breaks, a strangely red star, 50 times larger ...

When Sarah Gillis performed ‘Rey’s Theme’, a piece John Williams composed for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, her concert hall ...