A stunning compilation of views of Earth from the Tiangong space station. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

Astronauts perform so many out-of-this-world experiments on the International Space Station (ISS). They use a specially-built ...

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

A remarkable photo taken by an astronaut aboard the ISS shows SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn Crew Dragon capsule entering Earth’s ...

The last two weeks in space have brought us lots of highly-anticipated events and amazing discoveries. From mission launches ...

Martian Cloud Atlas unveils stunning atmospheric phenomena on Mars, offering valuable data on the clouds, storms, and weather ...

Down To Earth Community Lab: Join your fellow space explorers to ask questions, share out-of-this-world ideas, and forge new ...

Astronomers have now seen and captured pictures of another star bubbling gas on its surface. The star, R Doradus, is a red giant, with a diameter about 350 times larger than the sun's. This puffy star ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully demonstrating an 'ultra-cool ... Earth since its launch in 2018, has overcome these challenges, demonstrating the ...

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked at the space station. NASA Boeing’s troubled ... gives the best chance of a successful return to Earth. NASA also announced that it had solved the mystery ...