Astronomy Photographer of the Year, the annual photo competition showcasing all things space, is back. Ed Bloomer, senior ...

In August 1945, North Field launched the two bombers that carried out the first and only wartime use of nuclear weapons in ...

A supermoon rises behind a horse statue atop of Triumphal Arc during a partial lunar eclipse in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station, which has been in orbit for decades, have collected a stunning array of images ...

NASA's Gemini 11 mission set an all-time spaceflight altitude record when two astronauts reached an orbit of 850 miles above ...

Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human ...

As China and Russia build arsenals of weapons that could target American military and civilian ... at up to 22,000 miles above the earth’s surface, Space Force officials say.

An incredible new video taken by a NASA astronaut living aboard the International Space Station shows an epic explosion over Earth. But it’s not warfare or any other man-made horror that created ...

This ambipolar electric field is as fundamental to Earth as gravity and the magnetic field, and is the source of the flow of atmospheric ions into space known as the polar wind. For decades ...

A giant hole in the earth is breaking open the land in Siberia, and photos from space show it's growing rapidly. It resembles a stingray, a horseshoe crab, or a giant tadpole. It started as a ...

Embarking on a new chapter of private space exploration ... and the crew continues to be ready for their multi-day mission to low-Earth orbit," the company added. This handout photo courtesy of ...

Polaris Dawn’s time in space will be spent testing communications between it and Earth via Starlink satellites and completing almost 40 experiments. Many of these experiments will study how the ...