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On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

The official number of planets outside our solar system has reached 6,000, according to space scientists. NASA's tally of ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of 6,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system. The achievement comes just three years after the count reached 5,000 planets. The official tally is maintained by ...

With advance warning, however, steps can be taken to reduce the risks. If an electrical grid is running near capacity, for ...

“This milestone represents decades of cosmic exploration driven by NASA space telescopes — exploration that has completely changed the way humanity views the night sky,” Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...