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 ...

This weekend's September new moon will rise amid a partial solar eclipse, giving way to the autumnal equinox. Here's when, ...

SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday morning after two reschedules due ...

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 ...

The concept of the Kessler syndrome is that the area around Earth gets too crowded to a point where we reach a saturation point where collisions begin and cannot be stopped. "Spent rockets, satellites ...

Watch the Sept. 21 partial solar eclipse live online with this handy livestream. Coverage begins at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT).

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

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an ...

Every new discovery brings scientists closer to understanding whether Mars ever supported life and tells the Perseverance which samples to collect in the future.

The asteroid will pass the Earth at a distance of about 135,000 miles (about 217,000 km), considered "close" in astronomical ...

As of Friday, Sept. 19, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 5% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

Taiwan's space chief Wu Jong-shinn says the "clock is ticking" for the democratic island to launch its own satellites to ...