A team of four astronauts took the first X-ray of a human hand in space as they floated high above our planet, making medical ...

Satellite imagery provides a unique perspective on our planet and can encompass a wide range of different scientific disciplines including climate change, weather, volcanic eruptions and even ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies ...

told Space.com. "As the large and bright disks are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." The team also found that most of the observed disks showed ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare ...

The boundaries between planet Earth, the moon, and deep space just got fuzzier ... and it's a border that exists 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Earth's surface. But contrary to popular belief ...

The conditions in space are hostile to life and travelling in spacecraft is difficult and expensive. So scientists are using different methods to see if there is life on planets other than the Earth.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...