Through a series of 28 pictures, astronomers learned the asteroid makes a full spin every five hours and is a " contact ...

On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...

NASA's Earth Observatory has announced that Alaska has a "brand new island" after a retreating glacier lost contact with the ...

The images of Comet 3I/ATLAS were captured by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile on Aug. 27 as the icy ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

An AI model trained on years of data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory can predict the sun’s future appearance and ...

"This is the observatory's full field of view, a rectangular area about 20 times wider than the full moon." You know how the James Webb Space Telescope is said to be revolutionizing astronomy because ...

Detailed analysis of images of speckled rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a “potential biosignature.” ...

On its record-breaking approach to the sun late last year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the sun's atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the sun ...

New satellite images released by NASA have captured the dramatic progression of two fires that set off in Arizona near the Grand Canyon National Park. One image captured by MODIS (Moderate Resolution ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars stumbled upon rocks last year that scientists think may show signs that Mars once hosted ...