The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever to the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the sky-surveying Atlas telescope in ...

A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared her awe-inspiring experience of watching the sun rise from 250 miles above Earth. If you're someone who loves capturing breathtaking ...

The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the surface. Don ...

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path never flown before.

No, there is nowhere on Earth that a total solar eclipse will be visible for this event. For any solar eclipse to happen, the sun, the moon and the Earth need to line up.

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Astronaut Sunita Williams experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day aboard the International Space Station due to its fast orbit. This unique day-night cycle creates a fascinating rhythm in space, ...

The spaceship Sunrise that circled the earth for 24 hours last week was the first manned Russian satellite to be orbited in 16 months. But the long, launchless period had been a busy one: the ...

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew of four civilian astronauts successfully completed the first-ever commercial spacewalk.