Learn how these advances in instrumentation could provide a better understanding of solar winds and improve space weather ...

"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... They say opposites attract, and NASA thinks so too. NASA's Earth Observatory website posted this lovely pair today ...

Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

Every once in awhile, NASA publishes a photo of something in space taken by one of their probes. But how exactly do probes in ...

Barry Wilmore remains at the International Space Station after problems with a spacecraft, with late March now the scheduled ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 23 broadband spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:09 ... The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff ...

SpaceX's massive rocket aims for new milestones in reusability and in-space maneuvers, paving the way for lunar and Mars missions. NASA and Russia at odds over cause and severity of the ...