A spacecraft shot stunning photographs of Earth from nearly one million miles away on its route to a pulverized asteroid. The ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

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.

Watch this video to find out more about the Earth, planets in our Solar System and other planets far off in outer space. From up here on the International Space Station I get a great view of Earth.

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

In the time Pluto was found, classified as a planet and reclassified as a dwarf planet, it has not completed one orbit. One ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

The actor, vocalist and philanthropist's new Ben Folds-produced record ponders the fragility of our planet ... into space in 2021, when he became the oldest human to travel beyond Earth’s ...

What can dust grains that were returned to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu teach scientists about the early solar system? This ...

while the outer layer is thought to start at around 12,000 miles (19,312 km) over our planet's surface. The Van Allen belts serve as a loose barrier between Earth's atmosphere and its space ...