Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

The island formed in early 2023, when a mud volcano in the Caspian Sea’s Kumani Bank, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) off the ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

We are in store for an unusual celestial treat in January when six planets line up in the night sky across Texas.

Astronaut Don Pettit appeared on his social media to share a video showing what the Aurora Borealis looks like from space. O ...

This apocalyptic object, the Chicxulub impactor, slammed into the sea just off the coast of modern-day Mexico. From it, shock ...

The spacecraft themselves continued to operate normally in Earth orbit during the outage and "no science data has been lost." ...

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch ...

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is known for a  stunning spectacle of light in the night sky but this near-Earth manifestation, which is caused by explosive activity on the sun and carried by ...