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 ...

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

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 ...

A melting glacier in southeastern Alaska has birthed a brand-new island in the middle of a growing lake, according to recent images captured by NASA satellites ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-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 Landsat Science allows you to spell any name using satellite photos around the world. We spelled Florida with images ranging from South Africa to China, with a couple of U.S. locations thrown ...