To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away. NASA's Psyche spacecraft, which is headed toward a big and bizarre metal ...

The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle after landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Oct. 2019. Credit: Air Force From time to time, the U.S. military shows glimpses of its X-37B spaceplane, which can ...

Perseverance's main job is Martian weather forecasting, but its routine solar scans on November 25 unexpectedly detected the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft has captured breathtaking images of Earth as it passed by the planet on September 23, 2025, using a gravity-assist maneuver to speed its journey toward Apophis, a ...

Astronomers spotted a potential Earth-size rocky world orbiting a white dwarf, suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan In six billion years the sun will ...

NASA's 1967 ATS-3 satellite captured Earth's first true-colour image, revolutionizing weather forecasting and planetary understanding. This breakthrou ...

An artist's impression of the Earth 2.0/ET observatory searching for exo-Earths. Credit: CAS HELSINKI — China plans to launch an exoplanet observatory in 2028 with the aim of making a breakthrough ...