The amount of space junk has magnified over the years, leading to more collisions and threats to future space missions.

For several years, this unusual feature in Earth's magnetic field, referred to by NASA as a "dent," has been a source of ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.

There were a lot of reasons to expect the subjects’ performance to suffer as a result of their time in space. Among the ...

Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled the launch of the IMAP spacecraft to September 2025 to allow more time for preparing its ...

NASA astronaut Bill Anders took this iconic image of Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon on December 24, 1968.

Future lunar exploration could bring unexpected hazards by creating short-lived, toxic atmospheres made of moon dust.

For the past eight years, NASA's Juno spacecraft has been zooming around giant Jupiter. By the end of 2024, it will have made a total of 68 close passes around the planet, snapping pictures of its ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into low-Earth orbit for nearly three days.