A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

A breathtaking image captured from the International Space Station (ISS) shows the bright colours of Earth's atmosphere as ...

NASA’s search for near-Earth oddities has never been about a single dramatic moment, but about a slow, methodical expansion ...

We've all had the thought — wouldn't it be nice if summer were just a little longer? Well, it might become a reality in the ...

One of the most intriguing events of the month is the perihelion — or closest approach to Earth — of Comet 3I/ATLAS on ...

December is an exciting month for those who like to look up, with a comet, a meteor shower, and a conjunction between the ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a sprawling helium cloud known as an exosphere. This exosphere stretches ...

Radiation from space that led to more than 6,000 Airbus aircraft needing emergency computer updates could become a growing ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Could we see more northern lights this month? Multiple sunspots are rotating into view, with one already release an X-class ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...