The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...

The International Space Station has captured a photo of what in known as "Earth's tallest lightning". This form of lighting, ...

There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because a SpaceX ...

While scientists continue to find out new things about the celestial objects in our own solar system, they also monitor astronomical bodies that exist beyond. Case in point: Astronomers have been ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been ... their light spectrum and temperature. open image in gallery Pluto was once our solar system's ninth planet, but has been reclassified as a ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...

according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It will pass within (a cosmically slight) 917,000 miles of Earth before whizzing back off out across the solar system, not to return to near us again ...

Both groundbreaking missions promise to reveal previously unseen and unknown aspects of our solar system and galaxy. “These missions cover the full breadth of the science that NASA does every ...

Less than a year removed from a total solar eclipse that darkened the Natural State for more than four minutes in spots, ...