On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

Hailstones drove into terrain in southern Alberta during a storm Aug. 20, creating a scar on the landscape visible in NASA ...

Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. On ...

The spacecraft, bound for a metallic asteroid, turned to snap a striking image of our home planet from 180 million miles away ...

Unplanned' picture of Earth captured by NASA's Orbiter 1 from Moon in 1966, became defining moment in space photography. For ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission. The four small satellites sent to low Earth orbit opened their eyes metaphorically for the first ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured images of the sun 3.8 million miles away. Images collected by the probe include some of the sun’s outer atmosphere. The images are helping scientists figure out the ...

NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the ...