The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Kepler's Hope by Year of th ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Much as we may treasure and proclaim our independence, we actually live in a protective bubble called the heliosphere.

NASA is collaborating with the Colorado Army National Guard at its training center in Gypsum to help Artemis astronauts ...

American space agency NASA detailed the changes it made to the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will power the Artemis II mission.

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

The next full moon will be on Monday, Oct. 6. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 11:48 p.m. EDT (0348 GMT on Oct. 7), but local moonrise times vary depending on location. The moon will ...

India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, on Monday (US Local time) underlined the "long-standing and fruitful" space partnership between Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...