NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

IM-2 is flying via NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which puts agency science and technology instruments on private moon landers. The goal is to gather a wealth of ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth. However, a new study from scientists at University of California Santa Cruz ...

During his 178 days in space, Garan experienced what’s known as the “overview effect,” a cognitive shift that occurs when astronauts view Earth from orbit. This perspective often leads to a ...

In a video from The Associated Press, Jackie Faherty from the American Museum of Natural History explains that a total lunar eclipse is when the sun, Earth and moon are all perfectly aligned with the ...

Voyager 1, nearly a light-day distant from Earth, failed to respond as expected ... and the fear was that the Deep Space Network would not be able to find the weak signal. But find it they did ...

The United States Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane touched down to earth on Friday after spending 434 days in orbit conducting mysterious tests. The unmanned Boeing-made aircraft landed ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space ... of a mile wide and 600 feet deep.

Now the company is set to actually travel toward a near-Earth asteroid in deep space. AstroForge’s second robotic spacecraft, called Odin, is bundled into a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will also ...

The goal of the company's mission is a bold one, becoming the first commercially built craft to navigate far beyond the Moon, with the secondary goal of reaching near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5.