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.

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

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

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

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

It’s been a while since our planet was rocked by a sucker punch from outer space, but the ancient microbes who jump started ...

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 ...

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 ...